The Democrat liberals love to hate – CNN

"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."

But that didn't help matters.

"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."

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.

"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."

"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."

"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."

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.

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