No Room for You, Moderate Dems. DNC on the Verge of Appointing Extremist Ellison as Chair
Will the Democratic Party complete its descent into madness this weekend?
As the Democratic National Committee meets in Atlanta to select its next chairman, the frontrunner for the position — extremist Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn. (F, 26%) — represents the leftist radical fringe’s complete takeover of the party. In a survey of DNC members, Ellison leads his nearest rival with nearly twice the support.
Ellison, the first Muslim American elected to Congress, has built a coalition of support across the DNC spectrum. He is the favorite of the Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. (F, 17%) wing of the party while simultaneously garnering the endorsements of progressive icons such as Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. (F, 18%) and leadership figures like Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. (F, 2%).
All this to say, it is clear most of the Democratic Party has abandoned any pretense of operating in the mainstream. Just how radical is Rep. Keith Ellison?
This is a man who:
once compared the 9/11 terror attacks to the Reichstag fire (though later he retracted those remarks) to attack President George W. Bush as a dictator;
previously and repeatedly advocated on behalf of the Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated CAIR;
compared school choice to Jim Crow laws; and, among of things,
holds every radical liberal position on abortion, on amnesty for illegal aliens, on gun control, on environmental statism.
As if his radical positions weren’t enough to disqualify from leadership in a rational party, Ellison’s disturbing ties to radical Islam ought to give his Democratic colleagues pause. But they don’t. Nor does Ellison’s past relationship with the radical Louis Farrakhan, who perpetually makes the most disturbing anti-Semitic comments possible.
“I want to disabuse the Jews today of the false claim that you are the chosen of God — that Israel or Palestine belongs to you,” Farrakhan recently said at a Nation of Islam conference in Detroit, to the applause of the crowd. He continued, saying:
I want to disabuse you of that. I want to make it so clear and I’m going to tell you about your future. You that think you have power to frighten and dominate the peoples of the world. I’m here to announce the end of your time.
Ellison also shares Farrakhan’s anti-Israel sentiments.
“The United States foreign policy in the Middle East is governed by what is good or bad through a country of 7 million people. A region of 350 million all turns on a country of 7 million. Does that make sense?” Ellison said of the state of Israel at private fundraiser in 2010.
Even the liberal Anti-Defamation League has referred to those comments as “disqualifying.” And we’re supposed to believe President Donald Trump is the anti-Semite? As CR’s Jordan Schachtel noted:
We live in a strange world where actual anti-Semites are lecturing non anti-Semites on anti-Semitismhttps://t.co/FhRDbO8KK0
— Jordan Schachtel (@JordanSchachtel) February 21, 2017
And all that is just the beginning of Ellison’s radicalism, as Conservative Review Editor-in-Chief Mark Levin has explained previously:
That the Democratic Party is even permitting Keith Ellison run for leadership is a disgrace. That he is so close to winning that leadership position shows how far gone the Democrats are in kowtowing to the most radical elements of the Left. (For more from the author of “No Room for You, Moderate Dems. DNC on the Verge of Appointing Extremist Ellison as Chair” please click HERE)
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