OPINION:
One of the Democratic National Committee’s chair hopefuls, James Skoufis, released a four-point plan to secure Dems’ political power for the long-term, and surprise, surprise, it’s all about the money.
Leopards cannot change their spots. Democrats learned nothing from their beating at the 2024 polls.
Skoufis is just one of several Democrats running for the chief chair position at the DNC being vacated by Jaime Harrison. And he’s certainly not the front-runner. That label belongs to Ken Martin, head of Minnesota’s Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, who in early December already held half of the necessary number of endorsements to win the DNC chair slot.
Others seeking the seat include the party’s chair for Wisconsin, Ben Wikler; as well as former presidential candidate Marianne Williamson; the former governor of Maryland, Martin O’Malley; and Nate Snyder, a former official with Homeland Security. And in fairness, not all see mo’ money, mo’ money, mo’ money as the core ingredient to win political races in the future. Some actually see a unifying message that includes acknowledgment of past failures as the path to take.
As former Barack Obama political hack David Axelrod said, “Maybe the best thing is for the [new] Democratic Party chair to be essentially a technician addressing the operations of the party. … [S]omeone has to ask the question, ‘How did we lose 90 percent of the counties in this country? And is that a workable model moving forward?’”
Good advice.
Chances are the Democrat Party won’t take it, though.
Here’s Skoufis: “It’s time to expand the map rather than hunker down in seven states every four years. We’ve seen where that strategy leads: constant disappointment and diminishing returns. I know what it’s like to run, win and cede no ground in deeply-challenging territory — red states and counties [under my DNC leadership] will get unprecedented resources, attention and sweat equity from our DNC,” he said in his platform, The Hill reported.
He went on: “Year-round professional staff who feel valued, protected and heard is how we build winning state and local campaigns everywhere. Never, ever will DNC staff be given literally days’ notice prior to post-election turnover. Respecting workers starts at home.”
Year-round staff. Unprecedented levels of resources.
More money. More money. More money.
“DNC chair candidate calls for greater investment in GOP states in platform,” The Hill wrote.
“Skoufis vowed to ‘dramatically’ enhance the party’s Red State Fund if elected chair and loosen ‘counterproductive’ criteria states need to qualify for the fund,” The Hill wrote.
A couple of years back, while senator for his state, he did the same: “Skoufis Touts New Funding, ‘All Hands on Deck’ Initiatives,” a partial headline from Rockland News read in June of 2022.
The call for money and investment is a go-to for Democrats. If schools are failing to educate students — Democrats call for more money. If communities are crawling with criminals committing crimes — Democrats call for more money. If temperatures rise above a certain level or fall below a certain level — Democrats call for more money. They never look inward. They never look beyond the power of the purse — and their ability to tax and spend. They shelter those who cause the problems — the socialist teachers’ unions, the anti-American open border advocates, the radical climate change alarmists — because the ones who cause the problems are the ones who contribute the most money to their political party and their political races.
Skoufis may be a long-shot candidate for the DNC chair.
But his calls for ever-increasing money as a means of winning races for Democrats is an all-too-familiar chant from all those on the ideological left.
President-elect Donald Trump and Republicans won in 2024 because the American people were sick and tired of entrenched, elitist Democrats using tax dollars to advance principles, ideas, agendas and causes that worked against the American people. It’s simple. It’s so simple even a Democrat should be able to understand.
But Democrats are far more interested in accruing personal power than representing the best interests of the American people, of America, of the Constitution.
Leopards cannot change their spots.
Democrats will not learn from 2024.
• Cheryl Chumley can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com or on Twitter, @ckchumley. Listen to her podcast “Bold and Blunt” by clicking HERE. And never miss her column; subscribe to her newsletter and podcast by clicking HERE. Her latest book, “Lockdown: The Socialist Plan To Take Away Your Freedom,” is available by clicking HERE or clicking HERE or CLICKING HERE.
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