Dean’s accession to the party chair pushed the Democrats too far to the left. Soros was underwriting him, Move On and the entire party.
But for a Democrat to win, he (or she) would have to peel off a significant chunk of Republicans and independents, and occupying the Sensible Center is the only way to do it. Otherwise, it’s McGovern time all over again. Hillary has spent her first term setting herself up as a pragmatist and centrist, no doubt receiving a lot of coaching from her husband who was a master of triangulation.
With Dean pushing the party to the Hard Left, it becomes necessary to replace him, preferably with Harold Ickes, but that would open up a fight that would split the party. Hillary doesn’t need to be the heavy in an internal war to purge the Hard Left. They, after all, are the base. What Hillary needs is to control the purse strings. If she has that, then it doesn’t matter who chairs the party.
The coup is her seduction of Soros. If he’s underwriting Hillary’s effort, that means he has abandoned Move On and Dean, its avatar. It means that Hillary’s shadow party will harvest the unions for money while Dean will harvest the Hard Left. But Ickes will have the power while Dean becomes merely a figurehead.
In politics, always follow the money.
Bingo. And in re Soros: Double Dittos. Soros has used countries to manuever his own moneyed interests in past. I saw his dealings with MoveOn to be no different -- to manuever the Dem Party. Secret deals and handshakes.
I always did see Soro's move to support Move-on as only a blackmail economic tantrum in a tea-cup. Seems to me Hillary has agreed to whatever economic deals Soros wants in order to promote his financial agenda. I know it's something to do with "communications" especially in the mid-east. He was buying up stock in such companies last year like crazy.