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During a recent political conference in Washington, D.C., a collection of lawmakers condemned the Democratic Party as elitist, leftist, and out of touch. All the speakers were Democrats—as were most in an audience that applauded at nearly every turn.
“By and large, in the Democratic Party, we have a cultural problem,” Michigan Rep. Kristen McDonald Rivet said on stage during an appearance at WelcomeFest 2025, an annual gathering of centrist Democrats organized by WelcomePAC and more than half-dozen like-minded groups that believe left-wing extremists have become too dominant in the Democratic Party.
David M. Drucker is a senior writer at The Dispatch and is based in Washington, D.C. Prior to joining the company in 2023, he was a senior correspondent for the Washington Examiner. When Drucker is not covering American politics for The Dispatch, he enjoys hanging out with his two boys and listening to his wife's excellent taste in music.
