Left-Wing Protesters Disrupt DNC Candidate Forum, Exposing Ideological Fault Lines
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The event with DNC chair candidates temporarily devolved into chaos, but the slate took up corporate influence and climate issues raised by the protesters.
WASHINGTON — A stream of left-wing protesters interrupted the Democratic National Committee’s final chair candidate forum on Thursday night, shouting slogans about climate change and billionaire influence before being escorted out of a Georgetown University theater.
The spaced-out nature and scale of the disruptions — one after another, after another — immobilized the forum for a period, as one of the televised event’s three MSNBC moderators, Symone Sanders, strained to re-assert control and campus police and security guards hauled people out.
In a leadership contest that has been largely void of explicit ideological debate, the chaotic interruption felt like a metaphor for a party that can’t permanently ignore its internal policy debates and activist passions.
When asked afterward about the disruptions, former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, currently running for DNC chair in a competitive third-place position behind Ken Martin, chair of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, and Ben Wikler, chair of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, treated it like a healthy component of the Democratic Party’s process.
“I’m surprised I haven’t seen more of it,” O’Malley said in a press gaggle. “They’re going to be on this planet a lot longer than I am, and if they stop caring passionately about the planet, then we have no hope at all. So it didn’t bother me.”
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