House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) is a fitting leader for the Democratic Party because he exudes all the pathologies that dominate the Democratic Party.

He’ll play the race card rather than make a substantive argument, and he is too cozy with the Democrats’ entitled special interests.  

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Look at how he responded when President Donald Trump announced he would fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook — an act of debatable legality and ethics, based on a thin charge of mortgage fraud:

Race first. Race always.

This is such a Democratic knee-jerk reaction that Jeffries simply had to begin by mentioning Cook’s race. He provides no evidence that Trump’s attack is race-based, and so the implication is that Cook deserves special protection because she’s black.

Jeffries ends by denouncing the “slander of a distinguished public servant.” Calling government officials “public servants” is another Democratic tic. They hold up government employees as better than private-sector employees. An academic with stints in past Democratic administrations, she has swum in the circles Democrats revere: academia and the federal workforce.

Normal people do not believe that federal workers are some magical, special class of people who deserve special respect. Normal people do not believe that firing a black employee is worse than firing a white employee.

But here’s the thing: Normal people would likely be upset if they saw that Trump is trying to reshape the Fed because he wants it to serve his political ends rather than be full of good bankers who care about the stability of the economy.

Commentator Josh Barro offered a pretty concise critique of Trump’s firing of Cook:

THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY HAS LOST TOUCH WITH ITS BASE

How does this action affect voters, and how is this an abuse of power? Those questions didn’t occur to Jeffries. Instead, Jeffries asked, How can I accuse a Republican of racism, and how does this offend my favored protected classes?

That’s a Democratic pathology that holds the party back.