Having fallen just shy of victory in the first round of votes, the establishment favorite former Labor Secretary Tom Perez (and Obama/Clinton loyalist) has defeated Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) to become the next chairman of the Democratic National Committee in a blow to Bernie Sanders and the progressive wing of the party.
Democrats are holding an emergency meeting this weekend in order to devise a cunning strategy that will allow them to wage ‘all out war’ against president Trump. Democrat Party leaders will hold various secret closed-door meetings on Saturday and Sunday in order to focus their attention on undermining and bringing down the Trump presidency, rather than focus on fixing internal party problems.
Vietnam veteran and former "Berkeley Black Panther" liberal turned conservative author, Mason Weaver, appeared on Tucker Carlson Tonight with some harsh words for Civil Rights icon Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga), who recently referred to President-elect Trump as illegitimate. Weaver considers Lewis a turncoat who has been "collaborating with the Democrat party to oppress black America."
Weaver begins with a short history lesson [links added for context]:
Heidi Cruz dropped a bombshell during an Indiana campaign trail on Saturday, saying that her husband Senator Ted Cruz “is an immigrant”. “Ted is an immigrant. He is Hispanic,” Heidi Cruz said of her husband, an American citizen who renounced his Canadian citizenship even though he was born north of the American border. “He can unify this party.” “We have libertarians joining our cause. I have people every day from the Democrat Party telling me that they re-registered to vote for Ted as a Republican.