The Democratic National Committee (DNC) has elected Ken Martin as its new chairman, signaling a continued focus on identity politics and a lack of self-reflection following the party's 2022 midterms defeat. All candidates for DNC chair agreed that 'racism and misogyny' played a role in Kamala Harris's poor performance as vice president, mirroring the party's previous strategy of blaming voters for being bigots. The selection of Martin, who was vice chair on the Harris-Walz campaign, further reinforces the party's allegiance to Harris's brand of politics. Despite the party's lackluster performance, Martin and other Democratic leaders show no signs of changing their approach, blaming the party's 'brand' rather than its policies or messaging.
All of the candidates to replace outgoing DNC Chairman Jaime Harrison supported the notion that “racism and misogyny” played a key role in Harris’s electoral defeat, showing that the strategy of blaming voters for being bigots was going to persist no matter who the DNC selected to lead it.
The big name not to endorse was Harris, who got exactly what she presumably wanted; Martin was the vice chairman of the Harris-Walz campaign. The DNC also heavily rewarded Harris’s former running mate, Gov. Tim Walz . Martin was a Minnesota state party leader, and the DNC heeded Walz’sand chose gun control activist David Hogg as one of its vice chairs, a big Walz booster who relentlessly pushed the Harris campaign to choose him as her running mate.
The DNC has chosen to close off all avenues of self-reflection, maintaining that Biden’s collapsing candidacy overstaying its welcome and Harris’s identity politics-drowned campaign were exactly what they wanted to offer voters. Democrats want to stick with their identity obsession and ignore any problems with the mediocrities they rallied around last year, and they are gearing up to run it all back in the next election cycle.
DEMOCRATS DNC KEN MARTIN KAMALA HARRIS IDENTITY POLITICS
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