In the months leading up to this past weekend’s election for chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Republican commentators were already playing the Farrakhan card on Minnesota congressman Keith Ellison, one of top candidates for the gig.
In fact, Farrakhan had repudiated Ellison for having repudiated him.
No, they forgot all about the Farrakhan connection, at least for the moment, and simply found another wedge issue to exploit—the still unhealed Clinton/Sanders divide. And they got the biggest Republican in the country to exploit it.
Look, people, no one said it was easy to be a Democrat. The party’s a thinly papered-over coalition of political tribes that, more often than not, are at each other’s throats. No matter who wins, someone’s upset.
In the aftermath, Ellison reporters were quick to smear Perez as a puppet of corporate Democrats.
