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Democrats’ Southern Strategy Is About Keeping Power in Hands of Party Establishment

Don’t believe the Democratic National Committee’s official storyline—the DNC’s decision to make South Carolina the first Democrat presidential primary in 2028 isn’t about introducing more racial diversity into the early contests.

It’s actually about keeping power in the hands of the party establishment, the people who backed Hillary Clinton in 2016 and Joe Biden in 2020, and who are likely to wind up supporting Kamala Harris in 2028.

South Carolina was the establishment’s firewall against Bernie Sanders’ left-wing insurgency twice over.

In 2016, Sanders nearly beat Clinton in the first caucus, in Iowa, and went on to defeat her in the New Hampshire primary.

Four years later, there was a brief moment when Sanders looked like the front-runner—until he got clobbered by Biden in South Carolina.

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It’s true that the black voters who make South Carolina’s primaries more racially diverse than the contests in Iowa or New Hampshire are also less politically radical, so it’s easy for the DNC to say it’s not trying to choke off support for the socialist wing of the party, it’s just giving black voters more of a say.

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