Democracy Alliance, a far-left donor club embraced by the leadership of the Democratic Party, has a vision: The way to win in 2022 is reparations to blacks for slavery.
The Alliance hosted a reception — “Way to Win: 2022 Victory Party” — which offered an insight of things to come if Democrats can win. Why they picked 2022 no one knows, but apparently they’re thinking it’ll take two mid-term elections plus the 2020 presidential election to get in position to control the agenda.
“Take a ride in our time machine to hear from the true political geniuses who made this happen,” the group said in an invitation to the reception, which was held last week in the ritzy neighborhood of Buckhead outside Atlanta. “It’s 2022 and we are celebrating policy victories across the nation: Medicare for All and Free College, and next on the agenda is Reparations.”
The group has some other crazy predictions.
“Because we’re governing with gusto, we’re seeing victories up and down the ballot—including winning a governorship in Texas and putting 38 electoral votes in grasp by 2024,” the invite said. During a ride in that time machine, the group said to “Stop in 2020 and 2019 when local power builders turned Arizona and Florida solidly blue and established Virginia as a progressive governance juggernaut.”
Such Democratic leaders as House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris — both of whom are expected to run for president in 2020 — have offered support for the group. Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez and former Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe, a longtime Clinton fundraiser who is also expected to run for president, attended the April 16 reception.
“The ‘2022 Victory Party’ event was cohosted by a number of prominent liberal groups such as Planned Parenthood Action Fund, the Collective PAC — a collection of entities with a mission to build ‘black political power’ — and the Women Donors Action Network, which seeks to leverage the power of progressive women donors,” The Free Beacon reported.
The Center for Popular Democracy, a New York-based progressive advocacy group, was also a cohost. The Center for Popular Democracy’s sister organization, the Center for Popular Democracy Action Fund, leads a massive $80 million anti-Trump network that spans across 32 states. …
The Center for Popular Democracy, which has partnerships with more than 50 left-wing activist groups across the country, is also funded by the Democracy Alliance, whose members each vow to steer hundreds of thousands in funding to approved groups of the secretive donor network.
In a 2014 article titled “The left’s secret club,” Politico laid out details of the Democracy Alliance group.
Democracy Alliance partners, as the group calls its members, pay annual dues of $30,000 and are required to contribute a total of at least $200,000 a year to recommended groups. Since its inception in 2005, the DA has steered upward of $500 million to a range of groups, including pillars of the political left such as the conservative media watchdog Media Matters, the policy advocacy outfit Center for American Progress and the data firm Catalist — all of which are run by Clinton allies.