"Donna came in to take over the DNC at a very difficult time," the letter reads. "We were grateful to her for doing so. She is a longtime friend and colleague of many of us and has been an important leader in our party. But we do not recognize the campaign she portrays in the book."
Despite (sort of) acknowledging the difficulties that the campaign faced, the signers also noted that it was "particularly troubling and puzzling that [Brazile] would seemingly buy into false Russian-fueled propaganda, spread by both the Russians and [Trump], about [Clinton's] health." This was a response to Brazile's statement that she considered replacing Clinton as the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee with then-Vice President Joe Biden.
How could a political figure who's been hailed as a "longtime Democratic insider" be tossed aside for not standing by the Clinton campaign?
For Anoa Changa, it's just part of the mentality used to "undermine" anyone whose beliefs and statements don't fall into lockstep with the whole of the group — in this case the Democratic Party.
Speaking to Sputnik Radio's Brian Becker and John Kiriakou on Loud & Clear, Changa, the host of "The Way With Anoa," says that Brazile "never claimed she herself had the authority to circumvent the process and insert a new [Democratic] nominee."
According to Changa, what Brazile did say was that while serving as interim DNC chair there was a "process in the bylaws that she would oversee, but that it was still a difficult process."
"What she was talking about was just her experience in just those few months she served as chair, ahead of the election cycle," Changa told Becker and Kiriakou. "And to see the mass panic and chaos is in some ways hysterical, considering a month and a half ago everyone was told to sit down and be quiet because Hillary, with the release of ‘What Happened,' deserved to have the opportunity to tell her story on what happened [during the 2016 election]."
The pushback that Brazile is getting from the party reveals an even bigger issue, says Changa.
"What the Donna Brazile commentary has been is a greater indictment on the problems in current capitalism that has infected the Democratic Party for the last 25 years," Changa, also the director of political advocacy for the Progressive Army, said. "It's been 25 years since Bill Clinton was elected and we have seen a serious decline in the Democratic Party in the last 25 years and that's what she speaking to."
In excerpts of Brazile's upcoming book published in Politico last week, she presents evidence that the DNC rigged the nomination so that Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) was put aside in favor of Clinton and that the Clinton campaign was in control of the committee via its purse strings throughout the entire campaign cycle.
