Notoriously bad campaign strategist Mark Penn has an op-ed piece out that has some bad advice and some good advice.
He advances some good ideas to reform the Democratic Party:
- Get rid of caucuses and superdelegates.
- Pick the order of the first 12 primaries out of a hat.
- Adopt transparency principles at the DNC.
- Reforming the finances of the DNC, so it doesn't become a shell for donors.
He also suggests a "jungle primary" but that's a stupid idea for a single party. It's literally nonsensical.
However, he also comes to his pre-conceived, pre-packaged in 1994 idea that Democrats must nominate "moderates," whatever the hell that actually means.
The point of his reforms is to open up the nominating process and party apparatus. That's good. If it produces moderates? Fine. If it produces leftists? Fine.
But don't enter the process with the idea that you are creating more democracy for the purpose of getting what you want.
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