Former DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz — the same woman who rigged a presidential primary and somehow kept her career — is now being told she's the wrong color to run for Congress in Florida's 20th District. Black Democrats are in full meltdown mode over Wasserman Schultz announcing her candidacy in what they consider a Black opportunity district, and the resulting turf war is the most entertaining thing to come out of Florida since DeSantis told Disney to pound sand.
The party of "diversity and inclusion," everyone. Where your skin color determines whether you're allowed to run for office.
Here's the setup. Wasserman Schultz currently represents Florida's 25th Congressional District, which has gotten more competitive for Republicans after redistricting under Governor Ron DeSantis. Rather than fight for her own seat, she decided to hop over to FL-20 — a majority-minority district where 42% of voters are Black, 23% are Hispanic, and 4% are Asian. In other words, she went forum shopping for a safer seat, and the people who already live there aren't having it.
Progressive activist Elijah Manley didn't mince words: "Debbie Wasserman Schultz is carpetbagging to FL-20, a black opportunity district instead of running in her own. DWS is everything that's wrong with the Democratic establishment."
But Manley wasn't done. He went nuclear.
"Debbie Wasserman Schultz is no different than those Jim Crow Republicans across the south that are wiping out African-American opportunity districts," Manley said. Let that sink in. A progressive Democrat just compared Debbie Wasserman Schultz to Jim Crow segregationists. On the record. In public.
Former U.S. Representative Sheila Cherfilus McCormick, who previously held the FL-20 seat, has also opposed Wasserman Schultz's move, calling it what it is — forum shopping. The Florida Black Legislative Caucus issued a critical statement against her candidacy as well. This isn't one angry activist on Twitter. This is an organized, institutional rejection.
And here's the delicious irony that Democrats will never acknowledge: they built this. They spent decades carving the electorate into racial and ethnic categories, assigning victimhood scores, and telling every group that representation means someone who looks like you holding the seat. Now Debbie Wasserman Schultz — a white woman from a neighboring district — walks in and says "I'd like one congressional seat, please," and the entire framework collapses on her head.
The GOP, by the way, controls 20 of 28 Florida congressional seats. While Democrats are busy fighting over which identity group owns which district, Republicans are busy winning them, as reported by LifeZette.
You built the identity politics machine, Democrats. Don't come crying when it eats you too.
