Imagine this: After losing both houses of Congress and the White House, Democrats decide what they don’t need. apart abrasive.
In a leadership vote that shows some vestigial sanity still pinned on the tail of the party’s donkey, Rep. Debbie Dingell of Michigan fended off a challenge by the progressive Rep. Jasmine Crockett of Texas in the caucus vote Tuesday for the chairman of Democratic Policy. and the Communications Committee.
While the voting results are private, sources told the Washington Examiner that Dingell received 152 votes and Crockett 59.
And, from the sounds of it, it’s surprising that the challenge has so much support: “Reps. Jimmy Panetta (D-CA), Gabe Vasquez (D-NM), and Gwen Moore (D-WI), as well as Kristen McDonald Rivet (D-MI) , the Rep.-elect, gave a nomination speech for Dingell, while Crockett was the only one to speak for him, a source in the room confirmed “to the Examiner.
Crockett, entering his second term in the lower chamber, is the only insurgent candidate to try a member of the Democratic leadership, according to Axios.
“The lopsided result reflected what many House Democrats said was a rushed and last-minute campaign by Crockett to take down the entrenched Dingell,” the outlet reported.
“Crockett is the new media master who can help modernize the party after losing the 2024 election.”
It is important to emphasize what Crockett means by “master of the new media,” however.
If you are just a casual political observer and remember Crockett from anywhere, it is likely from the House Oversight Committee hearing in May that devolved into a “Jerry Springer” episode between Crockett and Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, which Crockett said. Greene has a “bleached blonde, badly built, butch body” after MTG commented on Crockett’s “fake eyelashes”.
Oh wow, Jasmine Crockett goes Marjorie Taylor Greene and Luna pic.twitter.com/AShjGfPXoe
— Acyn (@Acyn) May 17, 2024
Crockett then moved on to his trademark “bleached blonde, bad-built, butch body” insult and calling MTG racist to insult him at the same time, which is some impressive cognitive dissonance at work.
Also, in fact, this is an unrelated incident. Here’s how Crockett “ruled the new media” when he insulted GOP Rep. Nancy Mace during a hearing about Hunter Biden in January — which, you won’t be surprised to learn, also included accusations of racism:
“I can’t deal with a woman from South Carolina talking about white privilege. It’s a spit in the face, at least to me as a black woman, for you to talk about white privilege. – Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) called Nancy Mace at the Hunter Biden hearing pic.twitter.com/P9L9sOt21n
— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) January 10, 2024
And here’s our “new media master” talking on MSNBC about gang violence – which is real, he says, but caused by a roving gang of racist MAGA supporters!
Rep. Jasmine Crockett: We have a gang problem overrunning cities and towns. I totally agree with that. But guess what? It’s the MAGA gang and white supremacy. It is not illegal immigrants who come to make our economy stronger.pic.twitter.com/Nvrhy0lTwt
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) October 12, 2024
It is worth noting that Jussie Smollett is no longer in prison for that hate-crime hoax; Do we know where he works now? Say, perhaps, in the Capitol Hill office of a certain Texas lawmaker? Just a thought, given the similarities in the narrative here.
On the one hand, it is rather absurd that, after an election that – according to the standards of modern electoral calculus – was not close, that the Democrats did not consider a change of leadership. On the other hand, this seems to be the only option to make a switch, which says a lot about where the party is going and why they disappeared.
At least the party had enough sense not to hand over communications in the House to Rep. Mauryette Povich (D-Instagram). That still doesn’t mean it won’t last a few years — especially since these new media masters don’t need to win a closed party caucus election to go viral in the cringiest way possible.
This article first appeared in The Western Journal.
