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Democrats Jettison Their Superdelegates: What's Next?

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Aug 27, 2018
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by Rod D. Martin
August 27, 2018

ICYMI: Over the weekend, the DNC stripped superdelegates of their right to tip the scales in the Democrat nominating process. For my entire lifetime, unelected insider delegates have held the balance of power, and they handed a nomination to Hillary in 2016 that might well have gone to Sanders otherwise.

While this is objectively a reform -- and one I applaud -- nevertheless, it tells us two things that bear watching.

First and foremost, it tells us that the Clintons have fully and finally lost control of the DNC. The radical left -- and we're talking about people who think Hillary was rightwing -- are firmly in control now.

Second, without the "moderating" influence of the insiders, we're going to see just how Socialist and anti-Christian the nominating process can become. The Enemedia likes to pretend that Republicans have been becoming more and more "extreme" over time, but in fact, Republicans are running on almost exactly the same issues today that the…

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