Some would have you believe the reason we, along with the rest of the world, are today mourning our nation’s demise is because of FBI Director James Comey’s illegal actions just days before the presidential election. While that certainly may be plausible, the real reason we have a President Trump may be traced more directly to the actions of Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
As chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), Wasserman Schultz paved the way for Hillary Clinton to become the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee. How do we know this? Simple. We learned she and the DNC had their thumbs on the scales for Hillary through hacked emails released by WikiLeaks. Far from being the impartial body it was supposed to be, the DNC took actions that favored their desired candidate, Clinton, from the get go.
It didn’t matter that polls showed Bernie Sanders beating Donald Trump in head to head match ups more consistently than Hillary Clinton. It didn’t matter that Bernie had more of what makes campaigns successful … voter enthusiasm. It didn’t matter that Bernie’s approval ratings were miles ahead of Clinton’s.
Not surprisingly, in a private pre-election poll, as reported by the Huffington Post, Sanders would have beaten Donald Trump by a historic margin if he had been the Democratic nominee.
As it turned out, many loyal Sanders supporters became so outraged over the news that Wasserman Schultz and her cronies were trying to sabotage Bernie’s chances at the nomination they swore never to vote for Hillary. The actions of the DNC just reinforced the belief that the Democratic primary was being rigged. It played right into the hands of Trump who portrayed his opponent as “Crooked Hillary.”
If the Democratic primary contest had been allowed to take place on a level playing field, and Hillary had still came out on top, it is likely many Sanders supporters would have gotten behind their party’s nominee.
In a move that showed the shear tone-deafness of the Hillary camp, once Wasserman Schultz was forced to resign as Democratic National Committee chairwoman, she was immediately hired by the Clinton campaign!
In hindsight, it seems fairly clear that but for Wasserman Schultz’s meddling in the Democratic primary, we would be celebrating a Sanders victory today and not trying to wrap our heads around the thought of a President Trump.
This election was supposed to signal the fall of the GOP. Instead we may be witnessing the death of the Democratic Party.
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You’re right. This one woman might have singlehandedly changed the course of history!
Funny (not ha-ha) how that works.
I’m not convinced that’s all true. Bernie might not have won, and I think a scapegoat is being put up.
While Bernie was still in the race, nearly every poll have him beating Trump more than Hillary did. This was a change election. Like Trump, Bernie represented a new way … not business as usual which was the case with Hillary.
Thank you John for bringing this to light.
Thing is we will never know if Bernie would have won. But I liked his chances.
We only know who didn’t beat him.
I think that ANY Dem other than Hillary beats Drumpf in a landslide. People didn’t for her, they voted against her. Unfortunately, if Beau Biden didn’t pass away way too early in his life, Uncle Joe would have won the nomination and it wouldn’t have mattered who was the GOP candidate, he would won in a landslide. The negatives of HRC were just too big a hill to climb and Drumpf took advantage of that. Neither Wasserman nor Comey helped in this, nor Assange or the Russians, as she was clear bait for all of the rigging that was taking place. All of this would have been eliminated was she NOT the candidate.
While we may survive Drumpf, I fear that the Supreme Court will not. That will be his legacy if nothing else.
Not sure about that. Many Americans, especially in the Rust Belt, are hurting economically and are desperate. They went with the the political outsider who projected an air of success and promised jobs. Of course Trump can’t deliver on anything he promised. But when you’re desperate you do desperate things. As for the Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsberg will hang in there as long as she can. Trump may only appoint one justice … and the Dems will play hardball on the next appointment.
This election was only about Hillary winning. Not us. The individuals that hold the strings knew her negative image; hoped for Trump to be the Republican candidate, the only candidate they felt she could beat. This election was about bias for an individual that had the power to push others out of the way. Let’s focus on fixing our party.
You’re right. As if this election was all about Hillary’s turn! I’ betting if Biden had been a disloyal Democrat and had run, he would have won the primary and the general election in a landslide.
100% agreed