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Though Rep.Keith Ellison was muscled into second place in the DNC chair race by the Democratic establishment, which selected former Secretary of Labor Tom Perez to prevent him from winning, Ellison is defending their status quo.

On March 16, Ellisonrespondedon Twitter to a user who criticized HillaryClintonby citing things President DonaldTrumphas done that Clintonwouldnt have doneand reduced the initially cited criticism as spin. Peter Daoua former Clinton adviser who writes for a pro-Clinton outlet that was funded by Clinton Super PACs specifically to create and distribute propaganda to boost Clintons candidacythanked Ellison on Twitter for the exchange. Ellisonrepliedenthusiastically, Honored to stand up for HRC!

Hillary Clinton doesnt warrant progressives standing up for her, and continually defendingClintonwill prevent the Democratic Partys recovery. The manner in which Clinton won the Democratic presidential nomination was a stark indicator of how undemocratic the Democratic Partys primary process and rules are. Yet, the DNC has suppressed any calls forreforms. Super delegates, closed primaries, a primary process susceptible to overt bias from the DNC chair andstaff, and corrupt funding from corporate lobbyists and Super Pacs have all been kept in place. Claims that the Democratic Party is united are pointless as long as progressives like Ellison are continuing to force feed Hillary Clinton to the progressive wing of the Democratic Party.

Clintons flawed recordcombined withObamas adoption of a neo-liberal political agenda contrary to his campaign promises of hope and changerepelled millions of voters from the Democratic Party. The last thing Democrats should be doing is trying to rehabilitate Hillary Clinton. Continuing to reverberate the failed Democratic Party strategy of focusing on Trump being worse than Clinton makes Democrats appear disconnected and out-of-touch. Despite Ellison gaining a reputation as being one of the few members of Congress that endorsed Sen. Bernie Sanders during the 2016 Democratic primaries, Ellison has tweeted about Clintonover a dozen times. For comparison, he mentioned Sanders twice in the same period. Clearly, Ellison is pandering to the Democratic establishment over voters, as Sanders remains substantially more popular with voters than any other member in the Democratic Party. Sanders recently led a Fox News favorability poll over every politician polled in the Democrat and Republican parties, and he maintains over a 56 percent favorability rating based on current poll averages.

Democrats should be adopting the strategies that made Sanders the most popular politician in the country and should focus on issues that impact working, low income and middle class Americans. While Democratic leaders remain obsessed with the Trump-Russia narrative, Sanders has been hosting town halls and engaging voters in states like West Virginia, Kansas, and Wisconsinplaces where the Democratic Party has suffered drastic losses since 2008. Rather than try to recoup these losses, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) is debating notputting resources into rural America at all. And Rural America isnt the only area where Democrats have been losing support. Since 2008, exit poll data shows that Democrats have continuously lost voters in every voter demographic, and Democrats low favorability is due to millions of voters, who have traditionally been loyal to the party,developing widespread resentment against it.

Ellison and other establishment Democrats need to give up on trying to make Hillary Clinton seem palatable to American voters. Their stubborn insistence to defendher even after she lostwill ensure that the voters who left the Democratic Party never return.

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Former Sanders-Backer Continues to Cringingly 'Stand Up' for Hillary Clinton - Observer