Lindy Lee, the Democratic Party's top rainmaker, is not the only top Democrat who, fed up with the party's leftward shift, set out for a more livable environment. During an interview on Piers Morgan's Uncensored show, Lee called the party an unquestioned cult.
Outgoing West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin apparently agrees. He left the party in May and became an independent, slamming the party in an interview with CNN on Sunday.
Following Manchin out in June was Alison Hine, a tech mogul and a big fundraiser for President Barack Hussein Obama.
“Toxic” brand
Mr. Manchin's resignation in May was less of an outright attack on his party.
“Our national politics is broken, and neither party is willing to compromise to find a middle ground,” Manchin said. “To remain true to myself and my determination to put country before party, I have decided to register as an independent without affiliated with a political party and continue to fight for the good majority of Americans. did.”
But with just weeks left in his term, Mr. Manchin fired up his party for the far-left restaurant.
“The D brand has been very maligned in terms of just being toxic,” the two-term Democratic congressman told Manu Raju in an interview on CNN that aired Sunday.
“They've basically extended this idea of, 'We want to protect you there, but from there we're going to tell you how to live your life,'” Manchin continued. Ta.
He then warned the “progressives” currently controlling the party that “this country will not move to the left.”
disillusioned
Allison Hine followed him out the door almost immediately.
“Like any divorce, it wasn't just one event, it was a series of events leading up to it,” the Vietnamese immigrant told Fox talk show Jesse Watters.
The collapse of Democratic-controlled, crime-infested San Francisco pushed her over the edge, she told Watters.
Democrats were cracking down on the wrong thing. We need to crack down on the violent criminals who are all over the streets of San Francisco, people defecating, shooting heroin in front of me and my kids, and criminals breaking into grocery stores. Theft is allowed, and grocery stores are closed. store. I love cooking, but when I wake up in the morning, there is no supermarket to go to.
Huynh told Watters that when taking their children to the theater district, families have to “step over people who are shooting guns.” Huynh is afraid to go to Chinatown because of violent crimes against Asians.
Huynh was so disillusioned that he not only quit the party, but also sold a $1 million “Hope” poster of President Obama, the New York Post reported.
“My role was to bring people in Silicon Valley to dinners that cost $50,000 and $100,000 a plate,” Huynh said. “(We) brought in (Google co-founders) Sergey (Brin), Larry (Page) and Eric (Schmidt). Obama was a promising candidate who was outside the establishment.”
She was so passionate about the left that in 2005 she and Hassan bought a rocking chair that once belonged to Democratic Party icon John F. Kennedy at auction for nearly $100,000.
In 2008, she paid more than $1 million for a piece on canvas, acquiring Shepard Fairey's mixed media artwork that became the basis for President Obama's iconic “Hope” poster.
“The stink of losers”
Top Democratic fundraiser Lindy Lee's troubles began after she praised President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth.
Appearing on NewsNation's Morning in America, Lee said, “Maybe I'm looking for someone to oppose the nomination, but I actually have personal interactions…'' He's also on the show, and I've met Pete as well. He's a fellow Princetonian. I actually think he's a pretty nice guy.”
But then she appeared on Fox News and not only said the party was in trouble, but also confessed that Americans were excited about the incoming Trump administration.
“The stench of defeat pervaded the party,” Lee said. Democrats will be “left in the wilderness for at least the next four to eight years.”
Its appearance woke up an already awakened left. launched a ferocious attack.
Before explaining what happened, Lee said the defeated presidential candidate was “delusional” about re-election to the California gubernatorial race in 2026 and the presidential race in 2028.
But Lee continued.
“This past week has been miserable for me,” she told Morgan.
This Saturday, I appeared on Fox & Friends and said that the Democratic Party smells like a loser. As soon as I said that, there was a boycott movement against me. Unblock and unfollow campaigns. I lost 40,000 followers (on social media) in four days.
But worse, she said, was an almost demonic attack on her character. “They called me a prostitute and called me the 'C-word.' They asked me to be deported.”
mask off
Lee said the reaction to his remarks exposed the party's true nature.
“These so-called Democrats, the party of inclusion, the party of diversity, are all wearing masks,” she said.
And they pretend to occupy the moral high ground, which makes things even worse. They pretend to be very loving, caring, and accepting of diversity, but when I dare to voice criticism of Goddess Kamala Harris, I am suddenly ostracized. Me after raising tens of millions of dollars for the party.
Lee said donors were “angry” because they raised $2.5 billion to elect Harris, adding: “It's my responsibility to ask what happened with that money.” . Why did we spend millions of dollars on five-star hotels for election staff? Why did we essentially spend $500,000 in bribes in the moments before Al Sharpton interviewed Kamara? These are legitimate questions, but no, you can't ask them in a cult. ”
The campaign spent $1.5 billion over 15 weeks, or $100 million a week. Future Forward PAC spent an additional $1 billion, according to estimates by Democratic strategist James Carville. Total amount thrown away in Harris' defeat: $2.5 billion. Lee told NewsNation shortly after the election that his campaign was $20 million in debt because of his spending.
“It's like breaking out of a cult.”
However, Lee didn't stop there and insisted on his claims. She declared that leaving the Democratic Party, and even “questioning it,” is “like leaving a cult” and “terrifying.”
Mr Lee said the party's “madness” was over and the party's far-left cuisine was “accelerating my shift to the right”.
Worse, she said, she was accused of being a communist spy. “I don't want anything this ridiculous. It's really crazy, and honestly, they're downsizing their tents. … They're losing tens of millions of dollars that I've raised and can continue to raise. , is pushing me to get you to another team that will treat you better, that will just treat you like normal. That doesn't call me a communist spy, sensible people.” she said.
By the way, my great-grandfather was murdered by the communist regime in China. They don't know my family history. This is the first time I've said it properly on air. They call me a spy for the regime that killed my great-grandfather. Let it penetrate just a little bit. That's how shameful they are. And these are the people who call themselves social justice warriors…every time someone dares to disagree with them, they rush straight into racism. I don't want to be part of this nonsense anymore. I want to be part of a team that says men should be men, women should be women, and men shouldn't play women's sports. And I'm an athlete myself. I'm a marathon runner.
Post-election revelations
Before she decided to leave the party and in the weeks after the election, Lee revealed that the Harris campaign had lied to donors about internal voting. It showed she was competitive, especially in battleground states.
“Recently, an internal poll revealed that (Harris) never actually defeated President-elect Donald Trump, but this appears to be due to the large donations raised for her candidacy,” Lee said. “It seems that the message did not reach the people who were collecting the information,” FOX News reported.
We were clearly told she had a chance to win, but it wasn't even a shot. I was also told that Penn State looked good and that they would win the battleground state with a 3-4 record.
On election night, she said, the campaign announced that Trump would win Iowa, a state he won by a 13.3-point margin, 56-42.7.
Lee said the party must regain the trust of its donors, citing the brutal assault on the party that cost it the White House and both sides of the Capitol.
“It's not like he hit her. I'm shocked,” Lee said. “That's how much he beat her. It wasn't even close. It was a decisive defeat.”
