Was former secretary of labor and assistant attorney general Tom Perez's victory over Cong. Keith Ellison over the weekend in the race to serve as the new chairman of the Democratic National Committee a victory of centrist Democrats over radical leftists in the party?
That is how the mainstream media is portraying Perez's victory.
Along these lines, Prof. Alan Dershowitz, a lifelong Democrat who promised to quit the party if Ellison was elected due to his documented history of anti-Semitism and hostility towards Israel, hailed Perez's election.
