The battle for the future direction of the reeling Democratic Party is now beginning with the competition over who will run the Democratic National Committee (DNC) heating up after a catastrophic election.
In a national rebuke of the extreme leftist ideology of “woke” identity politics that has become dominant in the party, voters reelected Donald J. Trump and gave Republicans control of both houses of Congress, rejecting Kamala Harris by a landslide, a loss that has led to finger pointing and internal squabbling among Democrats.
Current DNC Chair Jaime Harrison isn’t likely to seek another term after the debacle in which he and the party chose to base their pitch to the American people on insisting that Trump is like Hitler, abortion and race, none of which addressed the suffering of voters who have been crushed by “Bidenomics” and who have seen their cities taken over by criminals and illegal aliens.
“Just like the presidential election was a change election, the DNC chair election will be a change election,” George Washington University’s Todd Belt is quoted by The Hill. “People want a break from the past.”
“The finger-pointing is still going on and will continue to go on, but I think what a successful candidate for this position to do is acknowledge the weaknesses that the party has right now, especially among working-class voters, and try to find a way to put together what will ultimately be the post-mortem,” added Belt, the director of the D.C.-based university’s political management program.
Among those jumping into the race to head up the DNC are former Democrat Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley and Minnesota Democrat leader Ken Martin. Other names mentioned include former Obama hatchetman and ex-Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who is currently the U.S. Ambassador to Japan and is reportedly also considering the gig.
The idea of Emanuel as DNC boss rankled Democratic Party ideological thought leader Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) who slammed the suggestion which has been boosted by his fellow Chicagoan David Axelrod.
There is a disease in Washington of Democrats who spend more time listening to the donor class than working people.
If you want to know the seed of the party’s political crisis, that’s it.
The DNC needs an organizer who gets people. Not someone who sends fish heads in the mail https://t.co/32LueUrsG8
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) November 16, 2024
“There is a disease in Washington of Democrats who spend more time listening to the donor class than working people. If you want to know the seed of the party’s political crisis, that’s it,” AOC wrote in a post to X. “The DNC needs an organizer who gets people. Not someone who sends fish heads in the mail.”
Ocasio-Cortez’s input comes after Americans overwhelmingly rejected the type of progressive politics that she has become the avatar of, so her opinion may not carry the amount of clout going forward that it has for the last six years.
“What we need to see is somebody who can take the very, very clear lessons of not just this election, but the past several presidential elections, where we’ve gone from winning very conclusively [to] eking out and white-knuckling a very narrow victory … and really apply it to how we approach elections writ large going forward,” Democratic strategist Jon Reinish told The Hill.
He said that the party needs “fresh, young, next-generation … outsider voices.”
“I’m hoping that we have a wide array of people and experiences to evaluate who can make the case for why they’re the ones to lead the party out of the wilderness,” Renish added.
“It’s going to be about figuring out what happened in this election,” Belt said of the coming battle for the DNC chair, “and charting a new way forward.”
The leadership shift comes after Harrison’s DNC abruptly laid off staffers without severance pay, despite the party’s insistence that it has been the champion of workers.
The chair will be selected by the 450 members of the DNC who have until March 1, 2025, to hold an election, their bylaws state.
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