Can Bernie Sanders change the Democratic Party from the inside out? Several campaign developments this week have posed that question. The Sanders campaign’s latest TV adbefore California’s June 7 primary features Sanders asking, “What choice do Californians have in this election?” His reply, “The biggest one of all. You have the power to choose a new direction for the Democratic Party.”
That followed Monday’s Democratic National Committee announcement that it will allow him to appoint five people to the party’s 15-member 2016 platform-writing committee. Sanders picked outspoken progressives including Cornel West, one of the nation’s leading racial justice critics; environmentalist and climate change activist Bill McKibben (who has been arrested during anti-Keystone Pipeline protests); and Arab-American Institute co-founder James Zogby (who in 2008 testified to the DNC’s platform committee about changing America’s anti-Palestinian foreign policies and opposing Islamophobia).
Then on Wednesday, the Washington-based outlet The Hill ran a lengthy reportsuggesting that Democrats in Congress were discussing whether the DNC’s controversial chairwoman and longtime Hillary Clinton loyalist, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, might have to be replaced to bring the party together after the nominating season ends to satisfy Sanders’ supporters. “There have been a lot of meetings over the past 48 hours about what color plate do we deliver Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s head on,” it quoted a Democratic senator as saying. For the full article click here
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