Will Michigan Democrats Accept the Results of Their Own Convention?

Several members of the Democrat establishment released official statements this week calling into question the results of their own state convention held last month. A half-assed online voting app is alleged to have shit the bed, allowing registered Democrats to vote at the convention from all over the state, perhaps even out of state, and allegedly even from Montenegro, in violation of convention rules.

The convention, which made national news and became a source of embarrassment for the Democrat Party writ-large, was a major breakthrough moment for insurgent progressive leftists in Michigan. The most radical and extreme elements of the party took command of the nominations, sending a signal to the power base that has ruled the roost for almost a decade.

Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald, the heavy favorite to win the nom for AG after years of chasing headlines with aggressive gun prosecutions, got her ass handed to her by Washtenaw County Prosecutor Eli Savit, a darling of the Democrat Socialists of America for his aversion to prosecuting crime.

Next was Barb Byrum, a legacy Democrat with all the right girlfriends in power, getting destroyed by Garlin Gilchrist II, also a favorite of the progressive left.

Perhaps most glaring and offensive to Democrats in the ivory tower was the behavior exhibited in the endless stream of video clips blasted out across social media of overt theater-kid behavior and vulgar illiberalism.

Of course, this level of insanity isn’t new, but normal Americans are usually shielded from such chilling optics by our siloed media environment. But not this time. Why did this break through into the mainstream?

The answer is simple. Affluent liberals got pissed off and wanted us to see it. They see their power diminishing, and rather than sulk quietly, they took to social media, cable news, and anyone else that would listen to them and went weapons-hot.

Why did they speak out? Embarrassment? They handle that easily. Shame? They dropped that on the side of the road years ago. Losing power to an insurgent movement inside their party threatening their entitled status quo? That’s a major problem, and they are moving to counter it with the nearest weapon to hand: lawfare.

Attorney General Dana Nessel has made accusations of fraud against her own party. Calling into the question accuracy of the process via Election Buddy, a private third-party platform used to tabulate votes using geocaching to firewall against voters not present at Huntington Place, Nessel still had the temerity to chastise those who question the integrity of elections.

She ranted on: "Those who traffic in election conspiracies will seek any and every opportunity to undermine public confidence in our elections, and while an audit is warranted in this circumstance, these results have no bearings on the veracity of state-run elections."

The hijinks seem fixated on two major in-state races, with deep concerns for the intensifying antisemitism and reverse racism that are fundamental tenets of the far-left.

Eli Savit is a very beatable AG nominee, and Republican AG Nominee Doug Lloyd seems quite happy at the prospect of running against Savit rather than Karen McDonald, who appeared more formidable to pundits.

Secretary of State Nominee Gilchrist, fresh off one of the lamest campaign videos ever filmed, is generally considered an incompetent halfwit, with Anthony Florini seeming primed as a viable and serious candidate without the baggage. Byrum, the desired establishment choice, is a legacy Democrat with deep familiar ties to the party and a personal friendship with Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. Byrum’s corrupt public persona and bizarre private life gives the impression she too would rather burn down the party than tuck her tail and disappear.

What does all this mean for those average voters?

Well, for starters, the Democrat party is enduring what the Republicans went through in 2016: a populist takeover. The trend that truly started in New York with the stunning election of Zohran Mamdani as mayor, but it’s a phenomenon the Democrats have held off for over a decade when they rigged their primaries to block Bernie Sanders from the presidential nomination in favor of Hillary Clinton.

They’ll never admit it publicly, of course, but this is a problem of their own making. The Democrat establishment incessantly placated the socialists and cultural Marxists for years, perhaps decades. They did it out of fear and as a means to further expand their base.

This has resulted in a Democrat Party moving further and further left during the Trump Era as the establishment continually chased fringe elements of their coalition. The social media posts that read outwardly as anti-white and anti-Jewish hatred are impossible to ignore, and are probably something Democrats like Nessel, Whitmer, and Democrat gubernatorial candidate Jocelyn Benson are watching with concern.

This Democrat civil war might be good for Republicans in the short term, though they too have their own inter-party hurdles.

Shunned by both parties, is Mike Duggan an imperfect Midwest test case for independents repelled by politics as usual, or is he just a useful idiot for forces that want the two major parties out of the way?