This is the endgame, right? They're sure racial justice advocates are destroying the Democratic Party, even when the racial justice advocates are nowhere near actual campaigns or power. The only logical next step is to proactively purge them from the party.
https://twitter.com/tzimmer_history/status/1456301193333022726
It's really simple to see why this idea is so appealing to moderate white male liberals: it drives the people who they feel most threatened by into the wilderness, and makes the Democratic Party into an organization dedicated to their ideals, where they're effectively in charge.
The response to this is always to point to "working class people of color" or Eric Adams, but that misses the point: they still want to create a sieve that filters out anyone whose ideas are too threatening to people like them.
If entry into the inner circle of Democratic politics is conditioned on not expressing ideas that make white men uncomfortable or white men find silly, white men are in charge.
And it doesn't matter how many black people are in the party's rank-in-file. It would hardly be the first white-run institution in American history built on the backs of people of color.
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