The DNC Contenders Are Not Interested In Your Populist Moment (Huffpo)

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18. And your comment in the OP indicates

That you object to efforts to get past divisions based on political personalities from a long ago established primary, and that candidates for DNC chair should be given a hearing based on what they bring to the position rather than tribal alliances. How long can people pretend allegiances to members of the political elite suffice as ideology? If we are to disagree, can it not be about issues or policy? How can the party be expected to stand for principles when Democrats are fixated entirely on alliances around personalities?

As for corporate donations to the DNC, it would be great to do without them, but even Ellison won't dismiss them outright as a possibility. The convention and party building needs to be funded somehow, and the vitriol directed toward the DNC last year certainly didn't help fundraising. Part of the problem is critics have so little understanding of what the DNC actually does, and they seem committed to keeping it that way.