Posted on 11/02/2017 10:55:27 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The former DNC chair seems eager to jump on the Bernie Sanders bandwagon, but her claims of ignorance about party favoritism toward Hillary Clinton dont add up.
For defeated politicians, the period after an election is for score-settling. For defeated political operatives, its about positioning for the next race. And if a juicy excerpt from Donna Braziles new book Hacks is an indication, the longtime Democratic operative and former interim chair of the Democratic National Party seems to think the future is Bernie Sanders.
Braziles piece, in Politico Magazine, is a fascinating document, though maybe not always for the reasons intended.
Braziles piece does help to explain one mystery of the 2016 cycle: Why didnt Clinton move to depose Wasserman Schultz sooner? Democrats had been complaining about her stewardship of the committee nearly since she was installed.
The fact that an operator like Brazile is willing to burn bridges with the Clintons, though, is important. Although one might have assumed Hillary Clintons time as a Democratic mover and shaker was passed, her frequent appearances to promote her book suggest she remains interested in staying in the arena, and earlier this week Jeet Heer argued that she should be the Democrats standard-bearer against Trump. (Never mind that weve seen how that turned out once before.) But Braziles bound toward the Bernie bandwagon is another indication of how Sanders is, at least for the moment, the de facto leader of the Democratic Party.
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