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It already happened...
We threw the old guard out of the DNC months ago, that's why the media suddenly became ok with bad things being said about the DNC.
And before anyone claims Martin is fighting Hogg or other progressives, you should read this article: https://www.sctimes.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/25/dnc-chair-martin-gives-david-hogg-ultimatum-on-challenging-incumbents/83276026007/
And:
That's it, and it's something we should all agree with. Especially progressives because in a fair fight progressive policy always wins.
The entire reason the old guard sucked so much, is they kept their thumbs on every primary scale. We don't have to do the same to beat them, we just need a fair primary.
Most democrats are right wingers and would rather vote for the Nat-C’s then allow poor people more opportunities. The primaries always seem to prove that. Martin is lying thrugh his teeth when he says this isn’t about keeping the thumbs off the scales. He and everyone else will support lazy “centrists” (which are actually far-righters) because they don’t give a fuck about stopping the Nat-C’s.
JFC you're dense. The DNC has actual by-laws prohibiting favoritism in the primaries (which is why 2016 was so fucked). Expecting the the DNC chair to advocate breaking the rules of the DNC is fucking stupid.
Your blaming your own inability to read between the lines on Martin. Grow up.
Dem voters? According to polling that's false.
The last primary saw the old guard DNC remove all delegates from an entire state...
They also try to call primaries before the amount of states voted reaches double digits, fraudulent primaries don't prove anything about voters
(Assuming you typo'd because he said this is explicitly about keeping thumbs off scales)
So you're one of those people who believe his entire political career has been a long con for this exact moment? Like, just because you didn't know his name till he became chair doesn't mean he just appeared out of the blue.
If you want to see how he leads a party, look at Minnesota, which became a progressive stronghold under his watch.
Why?
As I just said, he has had a long public career where he's literally done the opposite.
He's fine with incumbents losing primaries, he just doesn't think the party should have a say in who wins a primary...