Notes on the Former Democratic Party Golden Boy

Carl Beijer has some notes on the revelation that rising Democratic Party star Sean McElwee's colluded with Sam Bankman-Fried's efforts to find straw political donors and his subsequent defenestration from Data for Progress, the organization that he ran and founded.

It appears the he was coercing employees to take money from the Crypto-Fraudster Bankman-Fried and then donate that money to candidates of his choice.

Until his firing, the political press had had presented him as the, "Avatar of a rising generation of millennial leftists," only he was loathed by the left, and bragged that he was seen as, "Kind of a sell-out." (First link)

Mr. Beijer notes that the "real" left has loathed him for years:

Sean had a small network of loyalists and a larger audience of sympathizers among mainstream Democrats, but among rank-and-file activists and organizers, in left media and academia, from the lowliest dirtbag left Twitter posters to staffers in the House and Senate, Sean has long been regarded as an ambitious opportunist. This is not a story of the left being hoodwinked and watching their hero crash and burn; this is a story of journalists believing his hype for years and the left saying “we told you so.”

McElwee is an archetype of the corrupt grifter that permeates the Democratic Party establishment (There is no Democratic Party establishment).

The press loves them, particularly, as is the case of Sean McElwee, when they preside over alcohol soaked happy hours. (Second link)

His ascendance is an indication of the venality and corruption of both the Democratic Party establishment (There is no Democratic Party establishment) and the political press that covers them.