A Democratic consultant who raised millions for the party warned that it has betrayed its roots to become a lobbyist toy in thrall to its celebrity supporters.
Evan Barker has campaigned for the party since high school and was “delighted” to attend the Democratic National Committee in Chicago, where Kamala Harris was crowned the party’s presidential candidate.
But once there he realized the dominance that liberal billionaires now have over political platforms, at the expense of the workers they are supposed to represent.
And the party has failed to heed the lessons of its stuttering support in the polls, with vice presidential candidate Tim Walz posing last week alongside the son of progressive billionaire George Soros, whose DAs have wreaked so much havoc on the party’s brand. party and in people’s lives.
‘Is this how you convince people that you are the people’s party?’ she demanded. ‘Posing with a billionaire nepo baby while Americans struggle to pay for groceries?’
‘Far from being progressives, these Soros-backed DAs did more damage to progressives than anything the right has ever accomplished.
Longtime Democratic activist Evan Barker said she was “delighted” to attend the Democratic National Committee in Chicago, before feeling “devastated” to see how the party works up close.
He said the image of Democratic Vice President Tim Walz paying tribute at the Manhattan mansion of George Soros’ ‘nepo-baby’ son Alexander illustrates how tone-deaf the party has become.
“For everyday Americans, the term ‘progressive’ now conjures up images of fentanyl overdoses, crime, defecation in the streets and riots,” he said. news week.
Barker was dismayed when Joe Biden’s defenestration went unchallenged at the Democratic National Committee and points to the influence of billionaire donor Laurene Powell Jobs, the widow of Steve Jobs, one of Harris’s closest friends.
He spent some of his millions circulating negative polling data about Biden to other mega-donors and sat in Harris’ exclusive box at the convention while his protégé enjoyed his coronation.
“Now that the Democratic National Committee’s Kool-Aid is wearing off, people are waking up to the reality of an untested candidate,” Barker wrote.
‘Harris is barely leading Biden in key swing-state polls, dodges questions from the press and continually botches answers on important policy issues. He can barely answer basic questions about his plans for everyday people in friendly encounters with people like Oprah.
“This is what happens when a candidate is anointed by donors and not selected by voters.”
LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman is on track to spend more than $100 million to get his favorite candidate elected, but is expected to demand FTC Chair Lina Khan in return, claiming she is at “war with American companies.
Barker described Khan as “one of the only lifelines for workers in the modern Democratic machine,” and praised her work in blocking mergers of supermarket giants that would have cost jobs and raised prices.
Harris earned a slew of celebrity endorsements at the Democratic National Committee, including from chat show host Oprah Winfrey, who hosted a live ‘Unite for America’ rally.
At the event, dozens of Hollywood celebrities pledged their support for the party’s new election.
Barker pointed to the enormous influence of billionaire donors, including Steve Jobs’ widow, Laurene Powell Jobs, in securing the nomination of her Democratic protégé.
He defended workers’ rights by banning non-compete agreements and led efforts to block major grocery store mergers such as Kroger-Albertson, which would have resulted in higher food prices and hurt unionized workers.
“If Hoffman is successful in his public campaign to replace Khan, he will further cement the Democrats as the party of the rich, powerful and corporate elite,” he said.
“Democrats love to criticize money in politics when it comes to the Koch brothers or Elon Musk, but billionaires who support Democrats get full approval and have enormous influence over politics.”
Barker comes from a working-class family in Kansas, where he experienced a childhood of “intense pressure on my family’s finances.”
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‘Many of my family members are proud construction workers and lifelong union members. “I grew up believing that Democrats were our party,” he says.
But the party’s vulnerability to sectional interests that prioritize identity over income has alienated his family and threatens to destroy their core support.
He highlighted prolific San Francisco donor and influencer Steve Phillips, author of books such as “Brown Is the New White: How the Demographic Revolution Has Created a New American Majority” and “How We Win the Civil War: Securing a Multiracial Democracy and Putting end white supremacy forever.’
“It is increasingly clear that the real divide is that between college-educated students and working-class people of all races,” he wrote.
‘But Phillips and others like him continue to focus exclusively on race, and you can see the direct impact this has on Democratic politicians, who talk much more about things like “equity” than class division.
“It is out of touch with the pulse of the country and deeply alienating to working-class voters who were once staunch Democrats.”
Barker said his optimism about the Democratic National Committee was replaced by a “sinking feeling” once he arrived and began seeing party leaders in action.
“I felt immersed in an empty chamber whose mottos were ‘Snotty Summer’ and ‘Joy,’ totally out of touch with ordinary Americans and their pressing needs,” she reflected.
“Instead, the most elite people in the world chanted in unison: ‘We are not going back.'”
And no event better exemplified their detachment from reality than the euphoric livestreamed ‘United for America’ rally in which Oprah Winfrey took center stage as Hollywood royalty radiated their messages of support.
Celebrities including Bryan Cranston, Chris Rock, Ben Stiller, Jennifer Lopez, Tracee Ellis Ross, Julia Roberts and Meryl Streep dominated a giant screen at the event as Winfrey and Harris exchanged platitudes in front of a carefully selected audience.
“I felt immersed in an empty chamber whose mottos were ‘Snotty Summer’ and ‘Joy,’ totally out of touch with ordinary Americans and their pressing needs,” she reflected.
“I want to see the Democratic Party talk about what they’re going to do for my grandmother, not just a bunch of celebrities flying in and telling us all to be happy and optimistic,” she added.
“They’re basically telling us that all we need is optimism and joy, and that will fix our lives,” Barker said. fox news.
And I’m just tired of it. I’m completely fed up.
‘My grandmother lives in Missouri. Voted for Obama twice. He has voted for Trump the last two times.
‘Things have become so outrageously expensive that it is very difficult for her.
‘I want to see the Democratic Party talk about what they’re going to do for my grandmother, not just a bunch of celebrities coming and telling us all to be cheerful and optimistic. It’s embarrassing. It’s shameful.’
But Kansas grandmothers are no longer in the party spotlight, he says.
‘Democrats know that Reid Hoffman and Laurene Powell Jobs don’t have the best interests of ordinary Americans at heart, but they will continue to cower before them anyway.
‘Forget ‘Kamala is a brat’ or ‘Joy!’ Campaign.
“The image of Soros with Walz perfectly sums up the true vibe of Democrats these days: the limitless influence donors have over this party and the lives they have destroyed in the process.”