Posted on 12/27/2017 10:48:54 AM PST by leaymane
When Barack Obama burst onto the national political scene, Laura Hubka, like so many other young Democrats, became politically active for the first time in her life. “I was like ‘Wow! Change and hope, so exciting,’” she recalled in an interview last June. Obama’s lofty rhetoric inspired Hubka to join the Democratic Party in her home state of Iowa, rising to become party chairwoman of Howard County, in the rural northeast part of the state.
A decade later, Obama is out of office, Democrats are out of power, and Hubka says the hope she once felt has changed into despair at the prospect of the reelection of a president who is Obama’s antithesis.
Hubka recently resigned from the Iowa Democratic Party State Central Committee and as chairwoman of the Democratic Party in Howard County. Last year, Donald Trump won Howard County by 21 points four years after Obama had won it by the same margin, one of the largest swings in the country.
In an open letter, Hubka explained her reasons for leaving, expressing frustration with Democratic infighting and a party that too often betrays its principles.
In an interview in early December at her home in Riceville, Iowa, Hubka said bad blood continues to linger between Hillary Clinton supporters and Bernie Sanders supporters, and that too little progress has been made in reconciling the party’s establishment and progressive wings.
In October, Tom Perez, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, ousted several party officials who had supported Sanders during the primaries from their leadership positions. He also stripped of their at-large delegate status some officials who had supported progressive Rep. Keith Ellison during his bid for DNC chair, appointing scores of loyal Clinton supporters in their place.
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Soooooooooooooo...
...she’s a quitter?
Like, totally.
That’s RACIST!
She apparently doesn't like hope and change any more.............
...she’s a quitter?
She is doing the right thing by quitting. Quitting when you are only doing evil is a good idea.
May many more Democrats realize the futility of the opposition to Donald Trump and quit in disgust.
So, a she witnesses real hope and real change, and she can’t recognize it as a good thing. Liberals are stupid people.
a party that too often betrays its principles. ???
The perfect demonrat, so stupid she doesn’t realize that they have NO principles.
Let’s talk facts....Hillary only won the Iowa caucus by .3-percent. The party likely had to pull every single trick in the book to get Hillary to that level. Bernie probably should have won.
What’s changed since 2016? Nothing.
The party doesn’t represent the working-class people and their policy gimmicks don’t sell easily to the middle-class (which is the bulk of the Iowa Democratic voters).
My point was that she is not leaving the party because she realized its goals are evil, she is leaving because the party is in disarray.
You can fool some of the people all of the time.
“....Yeah, the corruption in Democratic Party totally didn’t exist when Obama became president, right?...”
Everyone knew, and what’s coming to light now is just absolutely and literally criminal. People need to go to jail.
“The party doesn’t represent the working-class people”
That applies to the establishment of both parties.
“In an open letter, Hubka explained her reasons for leaving, expressing frustration with Democratic infighting and a party that too often betrays its principles.”
Funny. We Republicans appear to have the same problem!
Seriously, she was excited? About an anti-American, lying, racist, Marxist Islamist who smoked pot and was a total loser?
Please let this be a trend.
She wanted change—just not _that_ much change. :-)
None of the weapons they use to destroy Republicans work for Trump. He’s immune.
The proof: The release of the “grab em by the...” remark was supposed to be a guaranteed fatal blow, and it may have actually made him stronger. :)
They don’t know how to handle a “real” person. Their weapons only work against politicians.
Snowflake alert! MAGA is a force of nature. Just go all in with Fake Indian Warren lol
Their weapons all rely on having dominance in the media, being able to control the flow of information, and controlling the narrative.
They no longer have those powers. President Trump is the first President since Nixon, at least, to understand that and to use the alternative media to defeat the Progressives.
It's never the ideology's fault, it's always the people implementing it and the people refusing to embrace it.
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