One of the favorite candidates to become the next DNC chairman, Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), is so far to the left that he is actually having to try to clean up some of his radical past statements and actions. It’s a bad sign that he is trying to appear more moderate by relying on feature stories in publications like Mother Jones to tidy up his record. But the highlights of Ellison’s career can’t be easily disguised. He was associated with radical leader of the Nation of Islam Louis Farrakhan, previously defended the anti-Semitic views of Farrakhan and has fully embraced the Black Lives Matter movement.

Meanwhile, former labor secretary Tom Perez is Ellison’s most high-profile challenger. If Ellison is the Bernie Sanders-type figure in the DNC race, then Perez would be the more establishment figure, who wants his campaign to be anchored by support from the government unions. Perez is perfectly suited to nurture the politics of grievance and subgroup identities the Democrats are obsessed with. Government unions believe it is their time to run the Democratic party and actually take over the government. If Perez wins, the government unions will finally have someone in place who believes the government exists to serve the interests of the government unions, not the other way around. Incredibly, despite Perez’s hyper-focus on unions, the trade unions that supported the Democratic Party for decades have been abandoned by today’s Democratic leaders. And oh, by the way, very shortly after being inaugurated, President Trump held a meeting with union leaders at the White House, and for some of them, it was their first meeting with the president of the United States since before President Obama was sworn into office.

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There are other, less well-known candidates in the DNC race who are trying to gain traction by going as far to the left as possible. Some of the more revealing quotes from these candidates include a statement by the executive director of the Idaho Democratic Committee, Sally Boynton Brown, during a DNC candidate forum discussion, when she said she sees her job “to shut other white people down when they want to interrupt. … I can go school the other white people. We need it.” It’s ridiculous.