I kinda feel like this is giving 'em a little too much credit.

It's not "them" it's one man, Ken Martin.

And he chaired Minnesota for like a decade, right up until the DNC. He has a proven track record.

But believe me, if he starts to fuck up I'm gonna say he's fucking up.

Basically, only the corrupt have any realistic chance of election nationally, which completely undermines the democratic part of our government.

If that was true then there would be zero way Mamdani would have won his primary. Sure, "it's a mayorship" but it's for NYC, one of the largest concentrations of wealth on the planet, there's a reason they've had shit against mayors for generations.

They failed to buy the primary, that's never really happened.

My own takeaway is to focus my attention more on local elections.

This is the big strategy of the DNC after a decade of the Victory Fund bankrupting state parties, were seeing the largest reinvestment from the DNC back to red/purple states so they can start fighting at lower levels.

The reaction to David Hogg’s actions are a good example of why I continue to be skeptical of the DNC.

Here's what happened:

Biden's pick for chair and the committee that runs primaries fucked up their internal election for vice chair.

Complaints were lodged that the election wasn't by the rules, Martin kicked it to committee who put it up to a DNC wide vote of all ~400 members. The same ones who had just elected Martin and Hogg off the same ballot.

Hogg choose not to run, by every indication he would have won just like last time, this was a formality

Instead Hogg said he's going to start a PAC.

I don't think he ever intended to win, no one would have predicted Martin or Hogg's wins. I wasn't even that optimistic. I think Hogg's original plan was to do the PAC, and that's why he refused to run in the re-election he was assuredly going to win.

Quick edit:

Fo bonus points, Martin just ran two of those committee members who have been fucking up primaries out of the DNC. Even better, one of them was an 08 superdelegate who tried to vote Clinton after Obama already had the votes.

The old guard is gone.

We can't squander this, we literally may never get the chance again if this doesn't work