Insofar as Lanny Davis is a legitimate Democrat, the Democratic Party is an illegitimate representative of anything that might be called the Left in this county. Insofar as Lanny Davis is shunned by important factions of the Democratic Party, the Democratic Party has legitimacy. Hillary Clinton’s and AIPAC’s most strident supporter is now receiving paychecks from the Honduran junta. You might run into a chicken/egg conundrum in determining whether Lanny Davis and his cohorts were empowered by Bill Clinton or whether Bill Clinton was put into power by them, but this behavior by Davis is one of the clearest confirmations yet of the wisdom of opposing Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign with ferocity.
It is a big concern that Davis is now representing the Honduran junta when he is so close to our Secretary of State. The tentacles of the far right reach deep into the Democratic Party at the elite level. When we let this happen, we let the Democratic Party fail as a representative of the Left.