Democrats Behaving Badly

 

One of our favorites is reportedly acting badly:

... [Rep. Jasmine] Crockett should be trying hard to ensure that Talarico wins. She’s not. “I personally don’t feel like the excitement necessarily exists within the Black community. Right now, I don’t feel like they’re excited,” Crockett said on the Front Page podcast recently of Talarico’s candidacy. That might sound like Crockett just giving a political analysis. And it’s likely that Talarico (like most candidates) has work to do to improve his standing among Black voters.

But Crockett has suggested several times over the last few months that Talarico is running a lackluster campaign, particularly with regard to appealing to Black voters. She could air those critiques in private. Or she could campaign aggressively for Talarico to Black voters, to address this shortage of excitement that she is asserting. She’s doing neither. She refused to speak at the Texas Democrats’ convention in June, even after Talarico reportedly personally called and asked the congresswoman to give the keynote address. She has suggested that she will campaign for other Democratic candidates in Texas but not Talarico...

For her own political future, not to mention for the sake of Texas and the nation, we hope this is a brief aberration.  Disappointing, but easy to address if she does the right thing right now.

We can't have this in this race, or in any race this year.  We're in a struggle to save American democracy, and egos, hurt feelings, and grievances need to be put aside in the greater fight against fascism.