25 June 2025

Yeah, the Status Quo is not Sustainable

I am referring to the corrupt and incompetent Democratic Party establishment (There is no Democratic Party establishment), where the latest bit of drama is AFT President Randi Weingarten and AFSCME President Lee Saunders have followed Parkland High School shooting survivor David Hogg out the door following clashes with DNC chair Ken Martin.

Mr. Martin is an aggressive defender of the  Democratic Party establishment (There is no Democratic Party establishment), and so once again, we see the Iron Law of Institutions at play, which is, as I have noted many times, "The people who control institutions care first and foremost about their power within the institution rather than the power of the institution itself. Thus, they would rather the institution "fail" while they remain in power within the institution than for the institution to "succeed" if that requires them to lose power within the institution." (Not my idea or term, this term was coined by Jon Schwarz)

They would rather fail than lose power:

The leaders of two of the nation’s largest and most influential labor unions have quit their posts in the Democratic National Committee in a major rebuke to the party’s new chairman, Ken Martin.

Randi Weingarten, the longtime leader of the American Federation of Teachers and a major voice in Democratic politics, and Lee Saunders, the president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, have told Mr. Martin they will decline offers to remain at-large members of the national party.

The departures of Ms. Weingarten and Mr. Saunders represent a significant erosion of trust in the D.N.C. — the official arm of the national party — during a moment in which Democrats are still locked out of power and grappling for a message and messenger to lead the opposition to President Trump. In their resignation messages, the two union chiefs suggested that under Mr. Martin’s leadership, the D.N.C. was failing to expand its coalition.

Both labor leaders had supported Mr. Martin’s rival in the chairmanship race, Ben Wikler, the chairman of the Wisconsin Democratic Party. Mr. Martin subsequently removed Ms. Weingarten from the party’s Rules and Bylaws Committee, a powerful body that sets the calendar and process for the Democratic Party’s presidential nominating process.

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Mr. Martin has recently faced scrutiny and criticism from within the party. His leadership was openly challenged by David Hogg, a party vice chairman who announced he would fund primary challenges to sitting Democrats — an action long considered out of bounds for top party officials.

Mr. Hogg announced last week that he would not seek to retain his post after the party voted to redo the vice chair election, after it had been challenged on an unrelated technicality.

Notably, Ms. Weingarten had endorsed Mr. Hogg’s primary efforts, saying it was necessary to “ruffle some feathers.” 

Ken Martin is an avatar for the idea that the Democratic Party should be the party of Andrew Cuomo, who the good people of New York City soundly rejected yesterday.

The Democratic Party establishment (There is no Democratic Party establishment) is a major impidement, if not THE major impediment to the success of the party.

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