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The new executive director of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) says his organization is “laser-focused on equipping Democrats across the country with the tools they need to win.”
But Roger Lau appears to have a history of embracing the exact policies that cost the Democrats big in the recent election.
A press release Monday from the DNC quoted Lau as saying that his team “will leverage the vast infrastructure that we’ve built within the DNC and our state parties while meeting this moment by deepening our partnerships, strengthening grassroots organizing, and turbocharging messaging to win elections.”
The former political director for Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s campaigns, Lau has a history of promoting Critical Race Theory-inspired ideology and the same agenda that Americans rejected in November and that led to President Donald Trump’s landslide victory.
“Roger and I have been together since my first days as a candidate for office, and it’s always been a fight from the heart,” Warren told CNN in 2019. “It’s what binds us together. Roger believes in building a grassroots operation, and that’s exactly what we’ll do.”
In July 2020, Lau participated in a video from the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) organization, urging fellow Massachusetts-based Asian Americans to join with black activists to “work to dismantle systemic racism.”
“The history of Asian American justice cannot be separated from the history of Black activism,” the activists stated. “Racism against Asian Americans has its roots in the same racism targeting Black Americans, and just as Black activists fought with and for the AAPI community in our struggles for racial justice, we must also stand with them today and into the future.”
“We are proud to join AAPI community leaders from across the Commonwealth standing in solidarity with the Black community as partners in the fight against racism,” they added. “All of us have to continue to speak up against anti-Blackness, empower Black businesses and voices, and work to dismantle systemic racism.”
In a letter signed by Lau and cited Thursday by Fox News, the leftwing activists claimed the United States was founded on “racism” and “genocide.”
“Our country was built on the foundation of racism, ranging from the genocide of indigenous people, chattel slavery, racial profiling of young men of color, and a criminal justice system that tears families apart,” Fox News quoted, citing the letter’s promotion of a “ten-point plan to address police violence” and “advance racial justice.”
The “plan” included a federal agenda that depicted law enforcement as engaging in “brutality, racial profiling, and the excessive use of force,” and the recommendation in Massachusetts to establish “peace officer standards and training (POST)” that would ultimately “certify police officers and enable de-certification for misconduct and abuse.”
In Massachusetts as well, the plan urged the establishment of a “commission on structural racism” to “study how the systemic presence of institutional racism has created a culture of structural racial inequality which has exacerbated disproportionate minority contact with the criminal justice system in Massachusetts.”
A local municipal goal of “Declaring Racism is a Public Health Crisis and worthy of treatment, assessment and financial investment in order to eradicate negative health impacts” was also part of the plan.
A 2020 ABC News report indicated Lau orchestrated the idea of including “hidden messages” in Warren’s DNC speech that year, during the COVID pandemic, delivered virtually from an early childhood education center in Springfield. Behind Warren during her speech, for example, was a BLM (Black Lives Matter) sign composed of block letters and prominently displayed in the classroom cubbies.
Kristen Orthman, Warren’s former campaign communications director, attributed the “hidden messages” to Lau, the ABC News report noted.
They “wanted to do a number of things in the background of the room and this was one they wanted to have visible in the camera shot,” she said.
While some Democratic Party consultants and insiders appear to have attempted a move toward moderation to achieve some political victories, the DNC and congressional Democrats seem bent on resisting Trump and most American voters.
In addition to hiring Lau, the DNC showed the organization is plowing ahead in the same radical direction by its election of gun control activist David Hogg as vice chairman.
And Democrats in Congress failed to earn Americans’ loyalty during Trump’s address to Congress Tuesday night, as shown by a CBS News/YouGov poll that found 76% approval for the president’s speech.
A CNN instant poll also found that 80% of viewers believe Rep. Al Green’s decision to interrupt the president was inappropriate.
As Trump himself observed during his address, congressional Democrats would not join in “celebrating so many incredible wins for America.”
