Is this a joke? Sure, let's completely alienate whatever is left of the base.
The man's career embodies everything that is wrong with the party.
"Among his special projects was helping to pass the North American Free Trade Agreement and the 1994 crime bill. He also tried to push Clinton to the right on immigration, advising the President, in a memo in November, 1996, to work to “claim and achieve record deportations of criminal aliens.” These all, in the fullness of time, turned out to be mistakes."
"NAFTA, in alienating the Party’s working-class base, contributed to the Democrats losing control of the House of Representatives in 1994. As for the crime bill, which included a “three strikes” provision that mandated life terms for criminals convicted of violent crimes even if their other two offenses were nonviolent, Clinton himself has apologized for it, saying that the policy “made the problem worse.” The attempt to out-Republican the Republicans on immigration never took off. Republicans are the party solely associated with vindictive immigration policies, which leaves them in the long-term crisis they’re finding themselves in now—identified as anathema by Latinos, the nation’s fastest-growing ethnic group. If Rahm had had his way, that never would have happened."
https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-sudden-but-well-deserved-fall-of-rahm-emanuel
Always pushing the party to the right, at the D.C.C.C. he relentlessly pushed right-leaning candidates, including even former Republicans. That not only caused blue collar voters to see the Democratic party as having abandon them, not only did it undermine and antagonize the progressive wing of the party, it didn't even win elections, which is always the perennial excuse for moving the party to the right.
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