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A Democrat Operative Explains The Rise Of The Radical DSA Left

Evan Barker’s memoir, Nothing Left: Confessions of a Democratic Operative, exposes the dark side of leftist politics.

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As the midterms approach, a big question that looms over political discourse is how exactly the far-left Democratic Socialists of America took over so much of the Democrat Party. For most Americans’ lifetimes, the Democrats had a reputation for running a tight ship and running strong political campaigns. Even the most astute political commentators have been surprised by the sudden popularity of politicians whose platform is primarily based on wealth confiscation and hating America.

While most analyses exploring this phenomenon tend to focus on the changing demographics of the electorate, the emerging K-shaped economy, or the slippery slope of liberalism as the reason for this development, the real cause is much more banal. As a former Democrat campaign consultant, Evan Barker recounts in Nothing Left: Confessions of a Democratic Operative that much of the success of the far left can be attributed to its being in the right place at the right time with the right people. More than anything else, Barker’s journey demonstrates that organization and securing political victories matter far more in defining a political party than actual ideals or governing principles.

Barker’s story begins in the warm afterglow of President Barack Obama’s presidential victory in 2008. A campaign intern at the time, Barker reminisces, “The night Barack Obama won his first presidential race was one of the happiest moments of my life.” As an intern still in high school, she became hooked on the thrill of talking to voters, making calls, and crafting messaging.

Although she grew up in Kansas, her first official gig as a campaign staffer started in New Jersey with a wealthy woman running for U.S. Congress whom she not-so-subtly calls “Karen.” Barker quickly came to realize that Karen is an entitled harridan who treats her staff like garbage. Nevertheless, she was part of the “Hillary Clinton wing of the party” and in line with the establishment, so everyone around her tolerated it. Still young, Barker soon cracks under the abuse and blows up at Karen, leaving her first campaign in a blaze of glory.

And yet, rather than preventing her from working on any more Democrat campaigns, this incident mainly causes her to migrate to the far-left wing of the Democrat Party headed by Sen. Bernie Sanders. This restores her faith in........

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