\"Rahm Emanuel covered up the murder of a Black teenager, Laquan McDonald, while he was Mayor of Chicago,\" tweeted New York Rep.-elect Mondaire Jones. \"That he's being considered for a cabinet position is completely outrageous and, honestly, very hurtful.\"<\/p>\n
But that didn't help matters.<\/p>\n
\"What is so hard to understand about this? Rahm Emanuel helped cover up the murder of Laquan McDonald. Covering up a murder is disqualifying for public leadership. This is not about the 'visibility' of a post. It is shameful and concerning that he is even being considered....It is also a truly embarrassing indictment of what's considered 'center' politics in the US that objecting to the appointment of an official who helped cover up the murder of a Black child is deemed the 'progressive, far left' position.\"<\/p>\n
While the McDonald shooting has become the flashpoint for liberal ire directed toward Emanuel, the ill will directed at the former mayor long predates that incident.<\/p>\n
\"I told him many times (about) the political cost of doing this,\" Emanuel said. \"And thank God for the country, he didn't listen to me.\"<\/p>\n
\"So much of the legend of Rahm Emanuel's brilliant career makes little sense. The bigger question, perhaps, is what this says about a political party and the political press that bought the legend in the first place.\"<\/p>\n
\"The left didn't just get here -- it has been around for decades. In fact, it was progressives who controlled the Democratic Party's agenda for the quarter-century before Clinton's victory in 1992. That's one of the reasons we lost every presidential election held between 1968 and 1988 except the post-Watergate win by Jimmy Carter. History has proved there aren't enough voters on the far left, on their own, to elect and reelect a president or maintain a majority in Congress.\"<\/p>\n
Putting Emanuel into a prominent role in his administration would be something different by Biden, however. It would be regarded by liberals as an open provocation -- whether or not Biden meant it that way. And it's not clear if the President-elect is willing to go that far down the road of antagonizing liberals before he is even the president.<\/p>\n
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