Democratic Lawmakers Blast Their Own Party for Boosting Election Deniers in GOP Primaries

[Tom Rinaldo]

28. The DCCC made it's choices. Individual donors make their choices also.

The DCCC choice was predictably controversial. Look at the OP again. It is Democrats elected to Congress who are criticizing the tactic the DCCC is using here, not the "but her email" crowd. It becomes tiresome for you to paint all critics with the same brush, and also for you to want to pin Hillary's loss exclusively on the same specific small percentage of voters. The number of registered Democrats who did not bother to vote in the 2016 presidential election far, far, far exceeds the number of registered Democrats who did vote but refused to vote for Hillary. And the number of people who tend to agree with Democrats on most issues who did not even bother to register to vote in 2016 is much larger than both of those groups combined. The Libertarian candidate for President in 2016 got multiples of the vote that Stein got also. It is the job of a political party to convince the public that it is in their interest to vote for that party's candidate. No one starts out owning anybody's vote. It simply is not how democracy works. Speaking only for myself, I want my money used to promote candidates who are on my side regarding the major issues facing America.

If election deniers and the emerging fascist right wing Republican movement are as serious a threat to our very democracy as we all keep screaming that it is, no I do not want to promote adherents of that movement onto the November ballot. Too many things can go wrong to upset all of the insider political calculations, last minute scandals, bad economic news, etc, etc, and suddenly fascists hold direct power in Governor mansions and the like.