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How can you say that most problems with the party were solved when Schumer and Jeffries are shitting their pants daily and waving it in our faces?
Because their power came from threatening to have the DNC cut off funding to state parties...
Something the DNC had been doing for a long time, it was a credible threat.
Then a month later the voting members of the DNC elected Ken Martin as chair and he proverbially and literally made it rain on state parties. They've all been operating at campaign levels the last year, he's giving back the "victory fund" money that was stolen from them in the first place.
Why do you think so many politicians are suddenly so comfortable talking shit about them?
Why does no one listen to them?
They'll be "lame ducks" till midterms, but there's nothing really going on.
Schumer and Jefferies literally don't matter, but billionaire owned media is going to desperately try to make it seem like they do, same as with Newsom.
Meanwhile, everyone's acting like the literal DNC chair didn't say we need a presidential candidate like Mamdani (in charisma and policy) to save the party.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/dnc-chair-on-the-path-to-winning-back-voters-and-lessons-democrats-can-learn-from-mamdani
Shits fucking good right now with the party, better than it's been in 50 years honestly. Shit just moves slow and we got fucked by the order of things beyond an average voters control