 So, we've been talking a lot on this show recently about this new, brazenly undemocratic rule by the DCCC that aims to block primary challengers of incumbent Democrats and essentially protect the status quo. Now, even the former DCCC head, Ben Ray Luan, has publicly distanced himself from this new policy because it is that toxic. It's really shamelessly undemocratic. But nonetheless, Sherry Bustos, the current DCCC head, is refusing to back down. And now she's trying to rally the troops who haven't spoken out to kind of come out and speak on her behalf. So according to Politico's Heather Kegel and Laura Baron Lopez, Sherry Bustos isn't afraid of the insurgent left. The chairwoman of House Democrats campaign arm has found herself in a very messy and public spat with progressives over the past week and a half. But the Midwestern moderate is refusing to budge despite drawing ire from prominent progressives like Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who has encouraged her millions of social media followers to halt donations to the campaign committee in retaliation. At issue is a new Democratic congressional campaign committee policy that prohibits Democratic consultants and vendors from working for a primary challenger to a sitting incumbent if they want the lucrative business of the DCCC. That stance was considered an unwritten rule for the party, but Bustos decided to codify it at a time when the prospect of left-wing primary challenges looms large among House Democrats. Despite the outcry from some progressives, many Democrats have rallied behind Bustos, approaching her on the floor and privately commending her for being willing to confront the left wing of the caucus when others have cowered, fearful of becoming the Twitter target du jour. Bustos has indeed become a public punching bag for progressives, absorbing blows from moderate and vulnerable Democrats. In return, Bustos has privately encouraged members to voice their support for her actions, particularly progressives who back the policy according to multiple sources. So first of all, understand that even if she's standing strong, she will have no choice but to buckle if this does have a negative impact on their fundraising. So if enough people do cancel their donations to the DCCC, she has no choice. She can't continue to budge. She'd be ousted because if you're not raising money for the party and your goal is to elect Democrats in the House of Representatives and you don't have money to fulfill your one job, your one goal, then you have no choice but to reverse course. So I do think that that strategy that is encouraged by AOC is incredibly important. By reading this article, I couldn't help but think Sherry Bustos is officially the Debbie Wasserman Schultz of 2020 because what did Debbie Wasserman Schultz do? She used her institutional advantages to overtly rig the process against progressives. So back in I think late 2015, she cut off Bernie Sanders access to then when one of Bernie's staffers that was recommended to the Bernie campaign by the DNC had accidentally accessed Hillary Clinton's voter data files, completely cut them off, and it wasn't until he threatened them with a lawsuit that she restored his access to NGP van because that basically cripples a campaign. If you're unable to access these really crucial data files because you don't know where to campaign, you don't know where to target. So this is kind of what we're seeing Sherry Bustos doing. She's trying to intimidate anyone who is inclined to work with a primary challenger to an incumbent Democrat in order to protect the status quo. So she's the new gatekeeper. She is de facto the new Debbie Wasserman Schultz who is trying to protect corrupt corporate Democrats from getting primary challenges that they deserve. And I love how she's trying to rally the troops to speak out on her behalf because she feels as if she's being dog paled on, but you're not being dog paled on. You're being called out because what you're doing is shameless and undemocratic. And your job is not to protect the status quo. Your job is to elect Democrats to the House of Representatives. Your job is not to protect incumbent Democrats because if we can get a primary challenger to defeat someone and make the party more popular, get someone there who's more electable in that particular district, then of course that's in the detrips interest. But she doesn't want to do that because she's a moderate, she's a corporate Democrat, so she herself is susceptible to a primary challenge from justice Democrats. And I really do hope that they do target her and try to primary her next because if you're going to do this, if you are going to basically be a gatekeeper and try to shut out primary challengers, you need to understand that that's not going to be tolerated. You're not brave for standing up against the new left. The new left isn't a bunch of attack dogs that just is thirsty for power. The new left is fighting for policies, very specific policy ideas. Medicare for all, Green New Deal, a federal jobs guarantee. So what are we doing? We're changing the makeup of the party in order to get the policies we need because that's what we have to do. The Democratic Party, Old Guard, is choosing to not adopt new popular ideas. They're choosing to remain conservative and it's completely unacceptable. So Sherry Bussos is the Debbie Wasserman Schultz of 2020. She's not as overt as Debbie Wasserman Schultz is, but nonetheless, functionally, she's utilizing the same exact tactics that DWS uses and it's completely disgusting. And if she thinks we're going to back down, she can think again, because if you think that you are justified in blocking primary challengers or trying to blackball consultants who want to work with Democratic primary challengers, we're not going to let that stand because we live in a democracy. And part of living in a democracy is allowing meaningful alternatives when the status quo and incumbent Democrats aren't representing us. So this isn't going to stand and we will continue to put pressure on you because this is completely disgusting, Sherry.