A prominent Democratic fundraiser is leaving the party of “diversity” after she was viciously attacked for publicly stating common-sense views that conflict with party orthodoxy.
Lindy Li, who claims to have raised “tens of millions of dollars” for Democratic candidates and frequently appeared on television to promote Vice President Kamala Harris’ failed presidential bid, told Piers Morgan Wednesday she was through with the “cult” called the Democratic Party.
“This past week has been harrowing for me,” Li said. “This Saturday, I went on Fox & Friends, and I said, ‘Democrats have a stench of loser hanging over them.’ As soon as I said that, there were boycott campaigns against me. Unblock, unfollow campaigns. I lost 40,000 followers in four days.”
Sore Losers
On the December 14 Fox & Friends Weekend, Li maintained that President-elect Donald Trump’s resounding victory over Harris had severely weakened the party.
“I’m speaking as a Democrat myself, this brings me no joy to say it,” she said. “I feel like the Democrats are going to be consigned to the wilderness for at least the next four to eight years.”
“I think, unfortunately, the Democratic Party has the stench of loser written all over the party,” she contended.
She also argued that the party’s intransigence on issues such as illegal immigration — despite the clear message sent by voters — is contributing to its “loser” status.
For that, she was subjected to vitriol beyond belief, she told Morgan.
“People have called me a whore, the ‘C-word,’” she said. “They asked for me to be deported.”
She continued:
All these so-called Democrats, the party of inclusion, the party of diversity, masks off. And it’s even worse because they pretend to occupy the moral high ground…. They pretend to be so loving and caring and embracing diversity, but all of a sudden, when I dare to utter any criticisms of the goddess Kamala Harris, I get ostracized. Me, after having raised tens of millions of dollars for the party.
Li, who called herself a “conservative Democrat,” told Morgan she was even accused of being a “communist spy”:
They’re calling me a spy for the regime that killed my great-grandfather, and these are the people who call themselves the social-justice warriors. They’re going head-first into racism anytime someone dares to disagree with them. I want to be a part of the team that says men are men and women are women and men shouldn’t play in women’s sports.
Cult Unfollowing
Li said she had a “responsibility” to her donors to find out what happened to the money they contributed to Harris’ campaign, including such matters as why the campaign blew millions of dollars on “five-star hotels” or $500,000 “bribing Al Sharpton” to give Harris a friendly MSNBC interview.
“These are legitimate questions,” she said,
but, no, in the cult, you can’t ask questions. And leaving the Democratic Party or even questioning the Democratic Party is like leaving a cult. It’s terrifying. I don’t want to be a part of this craziness anymore. They’re accelerating my rightward shift.
That “rightward shift” was kickstarted after the election, when Li, a member of the Democratic National Committee’s Finance Committee, told Fox News she’d discovered the Harris campaign had lied about its internal polling results.
Li irked Democrats even more by offering what she called “restrained support” for Pete Hegseth, Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Defense, reported Fox News. Appearing on NewsNation’s Morning in America on December 8, Li had the audacity to say of Hegseth, “I actually think he’s a pretty good guy.”
The “torrent of criticism” Li received for her appearance “caused her to question, to some degree, her allegiance to the … party,” wrote Fox News.
“I’m not just some random donor. I am one of the biggest, if not the biggest, Asian-American fundraiser on the Democratic side,” she said. But because she dared to offer even the mildest of praise for a Republican, especially one connected with Trump, party leaders called for her ouster.
Li seemed unconcerned, though, telling Fox News, “I think I’m too big to fully exile from the party.”
Freedom of Speech
Li is enjoying her newfound freedom to speak her mind. In a Thursday appearance on Fox News’ America’s Newsroom, she said in response to Democrats’ suggestions that Harris has a political future:
America has said, “We don’t want to be coconut-pilled. We do not want Kamala Harris. We don’t want failed border policies,” and I feel like I’m liberated, and I can finally tell the truth that the Democrats completely failed on the border.
She also assailed Democrats for their support for men in women’s sports, saying, “This should not be a controversial issue.”
When it comes voters, she observed,
We care about bread-and-butter issues. We care about putting food on the table, sending our kids to school, strong borders, not having millions of people rush to the border, and I’m a naturalized immigrant myself. Just because you care about these issues doesn’t make you a sexist, racist.
In today’s Democratic Party, it does, which is why Li is kissing the party goodbye. With her fundraising and communications skills, however, she won’t be out of work for long.
“People on Trump’s team have already reached out to me to see if I’d be willing to switch,” she told Fox News. “So, I’m not an orphan, you know? And I know people are actively trying to recruit me.”
