Democratic Party officials fear Clinton

The Democratic National Convention opened with a bit of chaos this week as DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz was forced to resign and Bernie Sanders very vocally expressed disgust with their candidate’s treatment. But beneath the chaotic veneer, Democratic Party loyalists are united by a fear of Hillary Clinton.

Back in 2014, Politico described how Clinton likes to keep a running political hit-list during her campaigns to make sure “friends could be rewarded and enemies punished” at the end.

As her failed 2008 bid came to an end, Politico reported, there was a lot of information for campaign flunkies to add to Hillary’s hit list:

As one of the last orders of business for a losing campaign, they recorded in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet the names and deeds of members of Congress. They carefully noted who had endorsed Hillary, who had backed Obama, and who had stayed on the sidelines—standard operating procedure for any high-end political organization. But the data went into much more nuanced detail. “We wanted to have a record of who endorsed us and who didn’t,” a member of Hillary’s campaign team said, “and of those who endorsed us, who went the extra mile and who was just kind of there. And of those who didn’t endorse us, those who understandably didn’t endorse us because they are [Congressional Black Caucus] members or Illinois members. And then, of course, those who endorsed him but really should have been with her … that burned her.”

For Hillary, whose loss was of course not the end of her political career, the spreadsheet was a necessity of modern political warfare, an improvement on what old-school politicians called a “favor file.” It meant that when asks rolled in, she and Bill would have at their fingertips all the information needed to make a quick decision—including extenuating, mitigating and amplifying factors—so that friends could be rewarded and enemies punished.

People within the Democratic establishment are evidently still feeling the effects of the Clinton hit list.

That, according to a recent report from Vox, is the reason that so many Sanders delegates appear less loyal to the Democratic Party than one might expect. Despite his impressive primary run and a wealth of support, Sanders was evidently forced to pull delegates from the fringes of the party because: “Everyone was so afraid to cross Clinton by serving as a Sanders delegate that he couldn’t convince the kind of party loyalists who normally take the job to do it.”

What they’re so afraid Clinton might do to them is anyone’s guess (she’s certainly ruined lives before)– but the fact that the presumptive Democratic nominee strikes fear into her party’s leaders explains a lot about how she’s made it to the DNC podium despite her scandals and seeming disregard for a huge part of the party’s base.

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