Dr. Cornel West Will Switch To Green Party

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 Broken during his interview with Katie Halper:


Covered by Due Dissidence and Status Coup (via Ron Placone):




Thoughts & Questions:
  • Apparently Chris Hedges played an important role in this.
  • What will the pro-Democratic Party Leftists say now? Dr. West has a platform that is distinctively different from RFK, Jr. and Marianne Williamson, and now he will be running with a party that has more ballot access.
  • Has MPP missed their moment? Odds are that the conversations were civil, but factoring the accusations from former MPP members and other left-leaning critics, the visuals play out like this: rather than stepping down or conceding any power, Nick Brana preferred to let Dr. West go and run as a Green. It's even more interesting considering that (again, according to ex-MPP members) Brana's model for electoral victory hinged on having a political celebrity run for president (which in theory would bring people to register locally). If any candidate would have helped make MPP a political threat, it was Dr. West. 
  • Mainstream media's reaction will be interesting, to say the least. 
  • Some of the initial reaction from those who would never even consider voting outside the duopoly is amusing: ranging from the usual "You're taking votes from the X Party!" to the curiously judgmental, "He switched parties already? Sounds shady" (this from people who most likely criticized West because he was with MPP) to, "If he really wants to challenge Joe Biden, he should run in the same party." 





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