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A former Democrat campaign operative has left the party after experiencing an epiphany at the Democrat National Convention.

Writing for Newsweek this week, former operative Evan Barker revealed that while she “was thrilled” initially to attend the DNC, the thrill soon gave way to despair.

“[O]nce there, wandering amidst the glitz and glam, imbibing the gloss and schmaltz of it all, I couldn’t escape a sinking feeling,” she wrote. “I felt submersed in a hollow chamber whose mottos were ‘Brat summer’ and ‘Joy’—totally out of touch with regular, everyday Americans and their pressing needs.”

“[I]nstead, the most elite people in the world chanted in unison that ‘We’re not going back!’ I found myself feeling disenchanted, lost, sad, and alone,” she added.

She felt disenchanted despite having grown up in a family of “proud construction workers and lifelong union members.” In fairness, many of her family members are no longer Democrats.

“They feel the party has changed, left them behind,” she explained.

According to Barker, her personal disenchantment began to bubble up as early as 2017, when she started raising money for campaigns by schmoozing “wealthy financiers, billionaire heiresses, and corporate CEOs.”

“I led candidates through hours a day of soullessly dialing up rich people and begging them for money,” she wrote. “Not only do candidates spend most of their time talking to the rich, but the only path to elected office is to be rich, or to know lots of rich people.”

Democrats know this but like to pretend otherwise, Barker went on to admit: “Democrats love to decry money in politics when it comes to the Koch brothers or Elon Musk, but the billionaires who support Democrats are given a total pass and have a huge influence over policy.”

At first, she thought this was a sign that the system was broken, but she’s since come to realize “it’s doing what it was designed to do, which is to keep working-class people from true representation.”

“Of course, this occurs in the Republican Party, too,” she wrote. “But Democrats are bigger hypocrites about it.”

This realization pushed her away from so-called “moderate” Democrats and right into the arms of radical “progressives” whose policy proposals she believed would genuinely help America.

There was just one problem: The establishment wing of the Democrat Party was hellbent on keeping the “progressives” down.

“My progressives lost,” she explained. “A lot. And it was always to the same old, tired playbook of dark money from super PACs pouring in, or major Democratic arms like the DCCC and DSCC putting their thumb on the scale, endorsing the anointed candidate early instead of letting the people choose. This is how they blocked Bernie.”

True.

But it doesn’t even matter anyway, she admitted because the “progressives” have lost their minds in “woke,” SJW nonsense.

“They’ve become compromised by the social justice language and divisive identity politics that now dominates the entire Democratic ecosystem,” she explained.

Democrats as a whole have also “embraced Bush-era foreign policy to become the party of war,” Barker continued, pointing to their obsession with funding Ukraine and also to Vice President Kamala Harris touting the endorsement of super war-hawk former Vice President Dick Cheney.

“Here’s the sad truth: The Democratic Party has lost its way entirely,” Barker wrote. “They mostly speak to the college-educated, the urban and affluent, in their language. Their tone is condescending and paternalistic.”

“They peddle giveaways to the college-educated like student loan forgiveness plans that disproportionately help their base, snubbing the majority of the country without a four-year degree, and then offer no tangible plans for true reform,” she added.

The Democrat Party’s transformation became even more evident to Barker when she moved to San Francisco from Kansas City a couple of years ago, only to come face to face with the most condescending liberal elitists.

“I’ve literally had people laugh in my face as they called my home state ‘dumb-f**k-istan,’” she wrote of these elitists.

Returning to the present, she attended this year’s DNC in the hopes of being re-inspired “to feel the same love for the party I felt as a teenager when I pounded the pavement for Barack Obama.”

But instead of giving her back that feeling, the DNC only reinforced what she’d seen and experienced beforehand, thus cementing in stone for her that it was time — that it IS time — for her to leave the Democrat Party.

“[I]nstead of giving me back that feeling, the DNC was where it finally hit me: It’s impossible to unsee what I’ve seen. I can only go forward. I’m not going back,” she explained.

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