 When India Walton was ultimately defeated by Byron Brown and his right in campaign She conceded she had the decency to concede Which is something that he refused to do after she beat him in a Democratic Party primary He ran a sore loser right in campaign and he cobbled together as many big donors as he could find and he defeated her Proving that money equals electoral success in late-stage capitalist America Now, you know, this isn't something that we can change progressives are accepting that she lost And we have to move on having said that though There still should be a level of accountability from the Democratic Party establishment as it relates to Byron Brown Because they always tell us if you lose in the Democratic Party primary It is incumbent on you to endorse the Democrat and support that person But here we saw that not only did Byron Brown refuse To endorse India Walton But the Democratic Party in New York refused to weigh in and endorse India Walton when she was the Democratic Party nominee So if they want this whole party unity line to stick and they don't want a bunch of progressive candidates To run their own sore loser right in campaigns after they're defeated by incumbent Democrats Then they have to at least prove to us that they care a little bit about this message of unity And it wasn't all just a facade to get us to shut the fuck up after we lose primaries So there's some progressives who are calling on the DNC to strip Byron Brown of his credentials from the DNC And I think that that it's not gonna change anything But it's the bare minimum that the DNC and the Democratic Party establishment can do to at least virtue signal to us About their seriousness when it comes to unity So David Siders and Holly Otterbyn of Politico explained when you pull a stunt like this Somebody wins a primary a working-class woman and you go to every rich donor in both parties to fund a right in campaign It's a disgrace said Larry Cohen chair of the Bernie Sanders aligned group our revolution Cohen a DNC member himself said he plans to organize an effort to press Democrats to remove Brown from his post on the National Committee And on Monday India Walton the unsuccessful Democratic nominee for Buffalo Mayor through her weight behind the move Not only do I support the DNC revoke in Byron Brown's post I believe it would set a dangerous precedent not to she said in a statement to Politico in addition to our revolution The New York chapter of the left-wing working families party also supports the effort to oust Brown from the DNC now again Revoking his DNC post would do nothing It's merely a symbolic concession that progressives are asking the Democratic Party establishment to make because again They would be outraged if any progressive that's running for Congress dare to run a sore loser red and campaign after they were defeated in a primary We know exactly what they'd say. Oh You're helping the Republicans. This is bad for unity I mean even if you dare to utter any criticism even a tepid criticism of a Democratic Party incumbent They freak the fuck out So if they're serious about unity, which they're not then at a minimum they do this But I mean party operatives are responding to this and they're saying yeah fuck off And Byron Brown is kind of saying the same thing pouring salt in the wound This to me sounds like another case of Sarah grapes out of our revolution said John Rainish a New York based Democratic strategist I think that progressives are feeling cornered Which is why you're seeing a lot of the lashing out where Democrats did badly and it was a bad night in last week's election A lot of it was a loud and clear message from voters that people feel the party is going too far to the left in a statement The Brown campaign said Mayor Byron Brown's Democratic Party bona fides are well known and beyond reproach Any questions of them by Bernie Sanders or India Walton are without merit and are simply Sarah grapes following a decisive red and defeat in the Buffalo mayoral election last week Stu lo sir a Democratic strategist in New York who previously worked for Schumer said why would we kick Mayor Brown off the DNC? He's proven he can win tough races the prospect of Brown a former state Democratic Party chair being stripped of his leadership position in the Party is slim to none even the progressive Democrats calling for the rebuke acknowledge that you're not likely going to see chair Jamie Harrison at the DNC or anybody at the White House do one thing said Cohen who described the effort as an uphill slog So in response to any accountability for him basically saying party unity my ass They're saying go fuck yourself spitting in the face of India Walton Bernie Sanders and not just them an entire wing of the party who they're on the cusp of losing Permanently, I can't tell you how many leftists I know who are just done with electoral politics and for good reason because it hasn't yielded any meaningful results No matter how many times we vote for Democrat Democrats loyally Nothing changes. They don't do nearly enough. So, you know, they Want us to vote for them. They want loyalty, but yet At every opportunity they spit in our fucking eyes. I Mean again, I'm gonna say it for the third time Imagine if a progressive incumbent ran a primary campaign against or a progressive challenger ran a primary campaign against an incumbent and Lost and then ran this sore loser right in campaign They would never accept it. They would call on him or her to step down But you know when it goes the other way They don't care unity only goes one way with the Democratic Party now one more statement that I want to read This is from Jay Jacobs. He's the chair of the New York Democratic Party and this is the guy who compared India Walton to David Duke. Here's what he says. He says that Brown is a good Democrat and Progressives should quote move on Now he wasn't speaking specifically about the campaign to remove Byron Brown from the DNC rather He was just speaking about him beating her with this right in campaign And look They are showing you who they are right now. It's not like this is a surprise We knew who they were from the beginning, but the next time there's some contentious Democratic Party primary And they talk about the progressive being a little bit too contentious making too many attacks Show them what they said here use this against them throw it in their faces Because if they want unity from us But they don't exhibit that themselves express unity or any mutual respect whatsoever Then we absolutely should not grant it to them. But again, none of this is surprising. I've been covering this for years now and the Democratic Party is Rotten and corrupt to its core. They don't care about winning elections. All they care about is appeasing their corporate donors and Byron Brown is a proxy for their corporate interests So they're happy that he won over someone who actually cared about the lives of people in Buffalo and that's sad But that's the state of affairs in American politics