therealnews | PAUL JAY: All right,
let me introduce our guest, Norman Solomon. Norman is the co-founder of
rootsaction.org, and he's co-author of a new report, "Autopsy: The
Democratic Party in Crisis." Thanks for joining us, Norman.
NORMAN SOLOMON: Thanks, Paul.PAUL
JAY: There's kind of two arguments there. One, let's start with the
first, that now's not the time to rehash all of this, that Trump
represents a kind of -- they are not using this language, but I will -- a
kind of neo-fascism. There's a broad front called the Resistance, and
people like Hilary Rosen and others are saying that this isn't a time
to, they use the word re-litigate what the DNC did or didn't do. There
should just be a constructive outlook in terms of reforming the DNC.
Don't rehash who did what to whom, and focus on attacking Trump. How do
you respond to that?
NORMAN SOLOMON: Ideally, there's a united
front against the horrific Trump presidency. There's not usefulness in
getting united behind bad strategies and undemocratic internal processes
of the Democratic Party. After all, "Democratic" is the first name of
the party, and when we see so clearly that contempt for basic democratic
principles were in play and in force inside the Democratic National
Committee, then it doesn't work to just shrug and say well, that's the
past so let's move on. The reality is that the same basic forces, the
political corporate tendencies and power, that held the DNC last year
still control it this year. So it's all well and good to say hey, just
move on, but we can't move on without being real about what happened and
what continues to be in play in terms of the top-down power at the DNC.
PAUL
JAY: The media has on the whole been very antagonistic to Donna
Brazile, at least the media I've seen, led of course by MSNBC, and I've
seen CNN, especially the first few days after Brazile's book was started
to be released by the Washington Post. There was one report I saw, it
was a CNN journalist, who just lambasted Brazile. We couldn't find the
clip, but NBC had released this agreement between the Clinton campaign
and the DNC, and according to a couple of sentences in that agreement,
the money that Clinton was controlling and the power she had over the
DNC was all supposed to be directed towards the general election, which
would have been appropriate. But NBC later actually, it got revealed,
when people look at the dates, and I understand NBC even had to retract
this, that the dates actually showed it was clearly about the primary,
and Donna Brazile clearly makes that this control of Clinton was all
about the primary. But the attack continued. Here's Robby Mook, a former
campaign manager for Clinton, on CNN.
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