Les Démocrates déchirés autour du choix du prochain président du parti

Les démocrates peinent toujours à se relever de cette défaite contre Donald Trump et l'élection du prochain président de la formation divise les troupes. Tom Perez, le meneur, est perçu comme trop près de l'establishment alors que son adversaire, Keith Ellison, plaît aux éléments les plus progressistes. S'il l'emportait, Ellison deviendrait le premier président musulman d'une formation politique. Les progressistes étaient déjà amers suite à la défaire de Bernie Sanders et on peut s'attendre à des critiques virulentes si Perez sort gagnant de l'exercice.

 "But outside of the DNC, progressive writers and organizers have begun to ring alarms about an Ellison defeat. On Friday morning, a number of groups that had endorsed Ellison, including MoveOn.org, 350 Action and the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, asked DNC members “to be heroes” and back the congressman’s campaign.

“If Keith Ellison is DNC Chair, we can hit the ground running — and because of the pre-existing trust that exists between Keith and the grassroots, every state party would have a head start harnessing the power of the resistance,” they wrote.

On Thursday and Friday, The New Republic and The Intercept published long pieces asking why Perez needed to run in the first place, highlighting the criticism of Ellison from donors. “If the plan to sink Ellison succeeds, the message that will be heard — fairly or not — is that the Democratic Party continues to venerate loyalty to its oligarchical donors above all else,” wrote The Intercept’s Glenn Greenwald."

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