Entire staff of Nevada Democratic Party quits
NOT LONG AFTER Judith Whitmer won her election on Saturday to become chair of the Nevada Democratic Party, she got an email from the party’s executive director, Alana Mounce. The message from Mounce began with a note of congratulations, before getting to her main point.
She was quitting. So was every other employee. And so were all the consultants. And the staff would be taking severance checks with them, thank you very much.
On March 6, a coalition of progressive candidates backed by the local chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America took over the leadership of the Nevada Democratic Party, sweeping all five party leadership positions in a contested election that evening. Whitmer, who had been chair of the Clark County Democratic Party, was elected chair. The establishment had prepared for the loss, having recently moved $450,000 out of the party’s coffers and into the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee’s account. The DSCC will put the money toward the 2022 reelection bid of Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, a vulnerable first-term Democrat.
While Whitmer’s opponents say she was planning to fire them anyway, Whitmer denies that claim. “I’ve been putting in the work,” Whitmer told The Intercept for the latest episode of Deconstructed. “What they just didn’t expect is that we got better and better at organizing and out-organizing them at every turn.”
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Socialists are radicals, for heavens sakes, and IL-liberal in their intolerance of others and inability to cooperate to achieve common goals. That's not US. Beliefs, goals, methods, and principles are all very different.
The very idea that maybe the Democrats won't accept socialist leadership because they're conservative illustrates what I'm talking about.
Notably, Democrats are both the originators and the protectors of democratic government of, by and for the people. Whereas for socialists, forever a fringe movement, democratic rule by majority vote is a barrier to their goals, as the rejection by many socialists here of the right of local electorates to decide shows repeatedly.
How on earth did these people get control, anyway, when 12% voting for socialism would be a banner year? Did they by any chance lie about who they are and who Democrats are? Could they possibly have claimed they were The Real, True Us and the Democrats were corrupt corporatists and even, gasp, conservatives? 
So, anyway. This event illustrates what I once tried to explain would happen to the whole party if the socialist fantasy taking it over -- and keeping control -- could magically come true. Eventually 80 million Democrats would reform as the same major liberal-dominated party under a different name, leaving the socialist fringe to wander the echoing halls of of this one. The lynchpin Democratic volunteers who turn out every election?
Btw, every political party is a whole lot more than the people with keys to the headquarters. How do Nevada's many and far-flung Democratic power centers feel about this upset? Did all the families who own things like multigenerational hardware stores and ranches turn socialist? Those who open their homes to fundraising parties? How about the lynchpin volunteers who turn out all over the state every election to elect Democrats to office?
Hope you're staying safe!!
And purity of ideology is more important than winning elections. 
