2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: My two cents on the Elijah Cummings thing [View all]Renaissance Man
(669 posts)This is democracy, and honestly, what happened last night to Elijah Cummings is a result of 20+ years of triangulating and moving the party to pro-corporate positions to get Democrats elected. It was an open rebuke of the party's platform, which includes support for the Trans Pacific Partnership.
Unfortunately, our party's track record (vis a vis NAFTA, CAFTA, and a TPP in the balance) hasn't been favorable for working and working poor people, and this has caused a rift in some supporters who have no faith in Hillary Clinton because of her public support for these same trade deals (whether she was serving in elected office or not).
So, while I think that the optics were bad, I'm not going to be distressed over it, because party officials earned it.