If you were thinking what the Democrats need right now is more Howard Dean, he’s one step ahead of you.
The guy who recently accused our president-elect of sniffing cocaine, hit Twitter Thursday so explain what Democrats should do now, and volunteered to lead the charge. (We already know he’s great at making a “Heeeyeaahhhhh”-type noise.)
https://twitter.com/GovHowardDean/status/796838538641833990
“The dems need organization and focus on the young,” wrote the former Vermont governor, who took over the Democratic National Committee shortly after the last time the Democrats lost a presidential election in 2004. He led it from 2005 to 2009, then went on to work for a health care lobbying firm.
How did Democrats react? Well. Twitter isn’t a very reliable cross-section of national opinion, or at least Dean should hope not, because reactions, were, um, mixed.
Here are a few:
I worked on your 2006 50-State Strategy, work with @SenSanders and us Progressives to take back the party.
— Sean Grady (@sgrady85) November 10, 2016
https://twitter.com/SwitchGlitchmon/status/796844836422762496
what a joke! your centrist lobbyist crap got us here in the first place. please never come back to the Democratic party again
— Oedipa Maas (@bridgietherease) November 10, 2016
https://twitter.com/donaltc/status/796841859960086528
Remember how much fun Democrats had watching Republicans spend most of 2016 fighting with each other? It looks like now Republicans get to do the same for a while.
The Washington Post reports that Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison — the first Muslim ever elected to Congress — could also become the new head of the DNC. That would be a rebuke of Donald Trump’s calls during the campaign for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the country.