a smidgeon of good sense are fleeing the Democrat party.
Senator Joe Manchin (I-WV) said Sunday on CNN’s “Inside Politics” that he was no longer a Democrat because the party’s brand had become “toxic.”
…He continued, “The brand got so bad the D brand has been so maligned from the standpoint of. It’s just toxic, and the D brand is basically this. You know, I’ve told them. I said, first of all, as an American and as someone in the Senate, I’m going to take the constitutional oath, the Constitution that I take very, very, very, very seriously.”
…And the Democratic Party, the Washington Democrats, have tried to mainstream the extreme.”
Manchin is certainly an unreliable ally to Conservatism. But he is correct, here.