Keith Ellison Supporters Warn Of Fallout If He Loses DNC Chair Race

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89. I'll ally with anyone who will focus on defeating the

tremendous fascistic threats from the right. Don't have to like or agree with allies all the time, just have to be able to work together to achieve common goals.

Unfortunately, I believe, from their own longstanding behaviors, that Ellison's/Sanders's most zealous supporters simply cannot move beyond attacking Democrats and would spend the next years mired down in their typical infighting. Right now the Republican leadership is dismantling more of our long-established processes critical to democracy, and who do the zealous ones believe they must remove from power?

IF Ellison wins, I'll wait and hope that he gets to work forming a solid front of Democratic Party factions to strengthen the party and rescue our nation. For all the noise, he may turn out to be made of the right stuff. If he won't or can't, well, most money and power already goes around the DNC, and radical dysfunction would only further weaken the DNC while mainstream factions strengthened behind other leaders.

The worry of course is that the inevitable angry demagoguery among a recalcitrant radical faction could cost us 2018.

Otoh, this could force attention on who and what liberal and other mainstream Democrats are. Reintroduce ourselves to the nation, so to speak. A favorite right-wing insult of Democrats, after all, is to insist we're all radicals. A big, noisy separation might help clarify things.