"The effort to get No Labels to stand down centered on targeting potential candidates and convincing them not to run as likely spoilers."
That's some serious white-washing there. The DNC Mafia threatened to ruin lives, careers, and unearth skeletons in order to make sure No Labels couldn't field a candidate. Having the DNC hand-pick the candidate, and then filing lawsuits to keep others off the ballot, is a pretty undemocratic process for a party that claims it's going to "save democracy."
The DNC all the way down to local partisan Legislative District groups are a mob of bullies. They have a particular disdain for moderates and even though illiberal progressives are a small minority of Democrats, they totally run the show and they'll silence anyone who isn't them.
"The effort to get No Labels to stand down centered on targeting potential candidates and convincing them not to run as likely spoilers."
That's some serious white-washing there. The DNC Mafia threatened to ruin lives, careers, and unearth skeletons in order to make sure No Labels couldn't field a candidate. Having the DNC hand-pick the candidate, and then filing lawsuits to keep others off the ballot, is a pretty undemocratic process for a party that claims it's going to "save democracy."
The DNC all the way down to local partisan Legislative District groups are a mob of bullies. They have a particular disdain for moderates and even though illiberal progressives are a small minority of Democrats, they totally run the show and they'll silence anyone who isn't them.