Unlike the Republican Party, the Democratic Party is a "big tent" party -- welcoming conservatives, moderates, liberals, and progressives. As of today, it has a new member. It's Steve Schmidt. He considered himself a moderate Republican in the past, and helped run Senator John McCain's campaign for president in 2008. But the Republicans have gone crazy, supporting an autocrat in an effort to bypass our electoral system -- and that drove Schmidt out of the party. He says the Democratic Party is the party that supports democracy, and he's right.
Here's what he had to say in becoming a Democrat:
“I spent 29 years as a Republican, I’ve spent two and a half as an independent, and later this afternoon I will register as a member of the Democratic Party. Because in America today, it’s only the Democratic Party—which is the oldest political party in the world—that stands for the ideas and ideals of American liberty.”
