Throughout the election campaign, the Democratic Party’s commitment to democracy has been questioned as to whether it truly stretches beyond the party name.
In the past month alone, the Democrats have selected a presidential candidate who failed to win a single primary, while also reportedly fighting to keep Donald Trump-endorser Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on the ballot in key swing states – and fighting to keep off far-left third-party candidate Cornel West.
However, under-the-radar footage from the Democratic National Convention suggested the party’s loyalists’ true attitude towards democracy.
Kelley Robinson – the first “queer, Black, female” president of the leftist Human Rights Campaign – showed her true colors on the DNC’s “LGBTQ+ Kickoff” on Monday, August 19. She’s also a Harris surrogate.
“We can’t just worry about protecting democracy. In this moment, we’ve got to reimagine it with people that look and love like us at the center,” Robinson said in one of the many references to Trump that week. “And I think for us right now is about reimaging freedom and this American story in a way that is more revolutionary than what our founders actually put down on that little piece of paper, but instead is the type of democracy that is by and for all of the people in this country. That’s the opportunity that we have.”
“That little piece of paper”, as she called it, is the Constitution.
Many thought Robinson’s comments alluded to communism.
Her reference to the Constitution did not go unnoticed either.
And this is hardly the first time she’s made headlines. Last year, she went viral for not being able to answer the question of if there’s a difference between men and women during a congressional hearing.
