DNC chair candidates unanimously reveal the party's not done accusing Americans of racism and misogyny



The Democratic National Committee will pick a new chair on Saturday to replace Jaime Harrison. Ahead of the party's election, MSNBC co-hosted an event Thursday with Georgetown University affording potential replacements with an opportunity to discuss their proposed messaging strategies and how they might win back the multitudes of voters the party has done its apparent best to alienate.

All eight candidates for chair — among whom Minnesota's Ken Martin and Wiconsin's Ben Wikler are reportedly the front-runners — made abundantly clear during the forum that the Democratic Party will not jettison the failed identity-centered thinking and messaging that helped them lose the White House and both chambers of the U.S. Congress.

MSNBC's Jonathan Capehart, who with former Biden campaign official Symone Sanders and former Biden press secretary Jen Psaki put questions to the candidates whenever the crowd was able to refrain from interrupting, asked, "How many of you believe that racism and misogyny played a role in Vice President Kamala Harris' defeat?"

All the candidates raised their hands.

"That's good. You all pass," said Capehart, who then stated as though it were a fact that President Donald Trump "consistently employed racist and misogynistic rhetoric on the campaign trail."

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Blaming racism and misogyny may have been an easy way to account for Harris' relative unpopularity; however, doing so deterred Democrats from addressing the issues actually driving voters away, such as their candidate's radicalism; Harris' positional weakness on important matters such as the cost of living, the fallout of open-border policies, and crime; her monomaniacal focus on attacking Trump; her choice of running mate; her candidacy's reliance on the effective voiding of the Democratic primary elections; the strength of her competitor's pitch; and the sense that a Harris administration would simply continue failing where former President Joe Biden left off.

'This DNC chair race is important for sending a signal to voters that Democrats have learned a lesson and will do things differently going forward.'

For instance, rather than figure out why Harris' promise of legal dope wasn't enough to win over black male voters or why the very suggestion might come across as deeply offensive, former President Barack Obama presumed the once-reliable Democratic voting bloc just wasn't "feeling the idea of having a woman as president."

Democratic Rep. Maxwell Frost (Fla.), seeing similar polls indicating an aversion to Harris, suggested in October that "there's still a lot of this bigotry in this country in terms of sexism, in terms of racism, and we still have to work at getting over that."

Democrats' allies in the media have played the same losing game.

Ahead of her first failed presidential run, Harris suggested America might not be "ready for a woman and a woman of color to be president of the United States of America."

ABC News dutifully raised the question, "Is Kamala Harris proof that America isn't ready for a woman of color as president?"

Alicia Jones, a black Howard University alumna, told the liberal outfit at the time, "I didn't vote for Barack Obama just because he was black. I voted for him because he was smart. I voted for him because he had a record that showed me the things that he did. It didn't matter that he was only a senator for five minutes."

"I think that what she did was dirty. And I think she's way beyond and way above what she did," Jones added, referring to Harris' statement.

Following Harris' crushing defeat last year, Fox News resident Democratic commentator Juan Williams said, "I'm not sold on this idea that it was the cost of eggs."

"I worry that it was, 'Well, I'm not voting for this woman.' Or 'I'm not voting for this black woman,'" said Williams.

Williams' fellow panelists pointed out that the identity-centered explanation for Harris' loss was undercut by various factors, including Trump's simultaneous drop in support among whites and increase in support among black men and Hispanics, and by black male voters' stated reasons for ditching Democrats.

Disputing German economist Isabella Weber's assertion that "many working Americans felt that Democrats had abandoned them with respect to their pocketbook struggles and ended up casting a ballot for Trump," the Nation's race-obsessive "justice correspondent" Elie Mystal adopted a similar line to Williams, claiming that Harris' loss was "not the economy, stupid. Trump ran on pure, unadulterated white identity politics and hate, and white-hot hate won."

"This DNC chair race is important for sending a signal to voters that Democrats have learned a lesson and will do things differently going forward," Adam Green, co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, told the Guardian. "If it sends a signal that we stand for the status quo and want to do everything the same, that will be a turnoff both to the Democratic base and to swing voters who want to see that Democrats are doing something different."

By the candidates' show of hands, it appears that Democrats are keen to keep attributing past and future losses not to remediable messaging and policy issues but to imagined bigotry.

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MSNBC joins Dems in smearing Holocaust survivor, other Trump supporters at Madison Square Garden as Nazis



MSNBC, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, and other Harris allies smeared a Holocaust survivor and tens of thousands of other Americans who attended President Donald Trump's high-energy campaign event Sunday at Madison Square Garden, characterizing them as today's equivalent of Nazis and fascists.

Despite the efforts of New York state Sen. Brad Hoylman-Sigal and other radical Democrats to shut down the event and a campaign by Lincoln Project false-flaggers to empty the stands, a diverse crowd filled the Garden to hear from numerous speakers, including former first lady Melania Trump, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), Elon Musk, Tucker Carlson, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Hulk Hogan, and Tony Hinchcliffe — a comedian who appears to have broken leftists' thin skin with his usual cutting humor.

Trump, exuding the joy his opponent once laid claim to, spoke of the dormancy of American greatness during the Biden-Harris years and the prospect of its return and maximization if he wins a second term.

While the crowd of tens of thousands appeared receptive to the speakers' remarks, Democrats and their media allies descended into fits of hysteria, leaning hard into preplanned Nazi comparisons and more of the incendiary rhetoric that set the stage for two known assassination attempts.

MSNBC went the distance for the Harris campaign in its coverage of the event, effectively smearing the multitudes in attendance — including Trump's numerous Jewish supporters and even a Holocaust survivor — as Nazis and fascists.

In a segment captioned, "Trump's MSG rally comes 85 years after pro-Nazi rally at famed arena," MSNBC talking head Jonathan Capehart said that the event was "particularly chilling because in 1939, more than 20,000 supporters of a different fascist leader, Adolf Hitler, packed the Garden for a so-called pro-America rally — a rally where speakers voiced anti-Semitic rhetoric from a stage draped with Nazi banners."

MSNBC juxtaposed clips of a Nazi rally with footage from Trump's event at the Garden.

'I know more about Hitler than Kamala will ever know in a thousand lifetimes.'

Capehart — who refrained from noting that the Democratic Party held its national conventions at the Garden in 1976, 1980, and 1992 — then appealed to anti-Trump historians Ruth Ben-Ghiat and Anne Applebaum for help smearing Trump and his supporters as Nazi parallels.

Steve Benen, the producer of "The Rachel Maddow Show," similarly likened the Sunday campaign event to a Nazi rally, writing, "The Republican’s Madison Square Garden event was ugly. It was offensive. It was vulgar. It was hateful. It drew obvious parallels to the 1939 event."

Time magazine, which again demonstrated its aversion to the truth last month, released an article ahead of the rally titled "How the Trump Rally at Madison Square Garden Follows a Long Tradition in Politics," emphasizing that Nazis once gathered where Trump supporters would soon rally.

Jerry Wartski, a 94-year-old Holocaust survivor who survived Auschwitz and the Nazis' death marches, was among those at the rally smeared by MSNBC and other Democratic propaganda outfits.

Wartski noted in a recent video, "Adolf Hitler invaded Poland when I was 9 years old. He murdered my parents and most of my family. I know more about Hitler than Kamala will ever know in a thousand lifetimes. For her to accuse President Trump of being like Hitler is the worst thing I've ever heard in my 75 years of living in the United States."

The Holocaust survivor appears to have singled out Harris because of her suggestion at a recent CNN town hall that Trump is a fascist and previous insinuations on the same theme.

The Nazi narrative embraced Sunday by MSNBC began in earnest earlier this month when Hoylman-Sigal wrote on X, "Let's be clear. Allowing Trump to hold an event at MSG is equivalent to the infamous Nazis rally at Madison Square Garden on February 20, 1939."

At the time, Blaze News senior editor and Washington correspondent Christopher Bedford noted, "A better comparison might have been Young Americans for Freedom's 1962 Madison Square Garden Rally, when those teenagers organized well over 18,000 attendees, and more outside, for a rally against global communism."

"New York liberals were shocked then how many of the kids rejected their tired ideas, but guys like Hoylman-Sigal don't actually know any history, so they just prove their own intolerant bigotries by calling for anyone who opposes their own tired ideas to be shut down," added Bedford.

Hoylman-Sigal was later aided in his narrative campaign by failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, who — apparently happy to forget her husband's 1992 rally at the Garden — told CNN that Trump would be "re-enacting the Madison Square Garden rally in 1939."

'They are a collection of hypocritical, mentally unstable children.'

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz soon joined in, saying, "There's a direct parallel to a big rally that happened in the mid-1930s at Madison Square Garden and don't think that he doesn't know for one second exactly what they're doing there."

The Democratic National Committee even projected Nazi accusations onto the Garden's exterior on the day, claiming, "Trump praised Hitler."

DNC spokesperson Abhi Rahman noted on X, "@TheDemocrats are reminding voters that Americans can’t afford Trump’s unstable and unwell behavior — even at his own rallies."

Critics of the apparently coordinated Nazi smear suggested that the media was not only agitating for violence but diminishing the true horror of the Holocaust and the evil of the Nazis for political gain.

Manhattan Institute fellow Ilya Shapiro noted, "Those who liken Trump to Hitler and the MSG rally to the Nazi rally aren't just smearing Trump, but minimizing Hitler/Nazis - which, given the antisemitic nature of the progressive left, may well be the point."

"INCITEMENT," wrote the popular X user @amuse. "Yesterday's Trump rally was filled with Americans from every walk of life including orthodox, conservative, reform, and secular Jews. I saw a woman in a burka. It wasn't an anything like a Nazi rally. Shame on MSNBC."

Dr. Simon Goddek tweeted to MSNBC, "You deserve to be canceled to the core."

Some users shared images of John F. Kennedy and other former presidents speaking at the Garden, while others asked whether the Knicks might be Nazi-like for playing at the venue.

Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk wrote, "Never mind that JFK and FDR both spoke at the same arena. Nope, those speeches were fine, because they were Democrats. Now, they're rewriting the rules so that big political rallies in a big city is 'Nazi' behavior. The left call themselves 'the adults in the room,' but they are the exact opposite. They are a collection of hypocritical, mentally unstable children. They cannot be allowed to hold power."

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MSNBC panelists are outclassed then blasted for their attack on Casey DeSantis, whom they called 'America's Karen'



MSNBC panelists' took turns belittling Florida's first lady on Saturday, characterizing Casey DeSantis as both "America's Karen" and as being akin to an antagonistic cultist from a dystopian novel.

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), Megyn Kelly and others quickly fired back, noting that the MSNBC talking heads' venom evidences not only their intolerance for strong conservative women but a fear of Casey DeSantis' efficacy as a mother, a wife, and a politico.

Former Republican Rep. David Jolly, voted out of office in 2016, and Tara Setmayer, the alleged-conservative Lincoln Project member who used to work for CNN, joined the titular host of "The Saturday Show With Jonathan Capehart" Saturday in watching an excerpt of a new DeSantis campaign ad.

Rather than engage with the political themes, which they cast as "dark," or address the specifics of what was said, the pundits decided instead to denigrate Casey DeSantis.

Jolly said, "Casey DeSantis is a fairly compelling political figure in Florida and now nationally. For many, she's the brighter side to Florida's angry governor. For others, she's become America's Karen."

Capehart laughingly repeated, "America's Karen," then noted Jolly had "taken his breath away" with this characterization of Florida's first lady.

Apparently this term was not yet in the MSNBC host's lexicon when in 2020 he raged against white women, suggesting that as a political force, they serve to enforce "patriarchal norms [rather] than dismantling them" and protect that system "where they and their children might lose the shared superiority and protection they get by being attached to powerful White men."

The MSNBC host, who elsewhere stated that men can be women, further insinuated white women maintain so-called institutional racism and that "the Democratic Party should stop wasting so much time on the lost cause of suburban wine moms."

According to the BBC, "Karen," used by Jolly as a pejorative, is a slang term "referencing a specific type of middle-class white woman, who exhibits behaviours that stem from privilege. ... 'Karen' is associated with the kind of person who ... is anti-vaccination, and carries out racist micro-aggressions."

The New York Post corroborated this reading of the term as a racial epithet, noting the term "has become social-media shorthand meaning a middle-aged white woman ... who makes a big fuss, and is not-so-blissfully ignorant."

Casey DeSantis, 43, is a mother of three and former news journalist who battled breast cancer and won. Extra to her successful career on television, she has championed various causes — such as cancer research and hurricane relief — for the betterment of her state while also actively supporting her husband, Gov. Ron DeSantis, both in Florida and in his current presidential bid.

While Jolly reduced Casey DeSantis' life, relations, and accomplishment to a single racially-charged word, albeit with a patriotic modifier, his co-panelist Tara Setmayer suggested Florida's first lady was a "Serena Waterford wannabe," referencing a major character in Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel "The Handmaid's Tale."

Waterford is the barren wife of the villainous Commander Frederick Waterford in the book, which was inspired in part by "the brutal Communist reign of Ceaușescu in Romania" and evinced a "treatment of women [that] is very Islamic."

Setmayer further claimed that Casey DeSantis "needs to cut it out," adding "there's all kinds of names for her."

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The Independent reported that Gov. Ron DeSantis responded on Fox News Monday, saying that he and his wife would wear the term "America's Karen" as a "badge of honor."

"My wife is an incredibly strong first lady of Florida, a fantastic mother and a great wife, and that threatens the left," said DeSantis. "So she and I kind of shrug it off because we know it just shows they view her as a threat, because the message that she was bringing in Iowa about the rights of parents and how we are not going to take this anymore with the left trying to indoctrinate our kids, they understand that that resonates not just with Republican parents, with independent parents, and, yes, with Democrat parents."

Gov. DeSantis noted that his wife is "a great advocate for families, a great advocate for children. And I'm thankful that she's my wife. And I'm really honored that she's willing to go out there and press the case. And so we wear criticism from MSNBC as a badge of honor."

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While the DeSantis couple opted to outclass the MSNBC panelists, Megyn Kelly fired back on her podcast, saying, "If [critics] were saying this sort of thing about a leftie, these same [commentators] would be outraged by the rampant misogyny," reported the New York Post. "But as always, it’s always fair game against a Republican wife. ... They hate her in a special way. It’s almost coming at her more viciously than with [former first lady] Melania [Trump]."

Kelly added, "I think the reason they are reacting so angrily to [Casey DeSantis] is they accurately perceive her as a threat."

Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) suggested that Capehart and his panelists' attacks on DeSantis were "classless, and consistent with that network's chronic and indefensible mistreatment of @MELANIATRUMP. All this is indicative of MSNBC's status as the unscrupulous media arm of the Democratic Party."

TheBlaze reported last month that the executive editor at the Daily beast targeted Casey DeSantis in a deranged rant, stressing that she had neither the ideological mooring nor the aristocratic bona fides needed to qualify for acceptance by the media and the political establishment.

Rather than "America's Karen," Katie Baker, the executive editor of the leftist blog, called Florida's first lady "the Walmart Melania."

"While Casey may be trying to position herself after Jackie Kennedy (good luck) and even Melania, if this weekend is any indication, she’s falling far short. It doesn't matter how many times she wears that ice-blue Badgley Mischka cape-dress. The DeSantis’ will never be Camelot," wrote Baker, adding that DeSantis could never "embody the class and effortless elegance of Michelle Obama or Dr. Jill Biden."

Baker made explicit her classist digs with an allusion to "The Great Gatsby," suggesting that unlike F. Scott Fitzgerald's fictional characters Tom and Daisy Buchanan — inheritors of affluence and wealth — "the DeSantis’ are more like poseurs," bereft also of the Gatsbian wealth that the Trumps can "retreat into."

MSNBC recently provided tips on "how to counter the 'tidal wave of misogyny' spurred by anti-feminist influencers."

While the guidance was tailored to younger minds, juvenile mindsets fitting to disparage a woman in prime time on the basis of her immutable characteristics, age, and political affiliation, might similarly be cured with "consistent and positive engagement with men who are role models for respectful treatment of women."

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