WARNING: This is a very uncomfortable article but a necessary one. Many reading this article will not agree with the choices and lifestyle of Karine Jean-Pierre, but her courage to face down her party and dump them is commendable. No, she is not going to be a Republican, but she is no longer a Democrat and probably will never go back or can go back!
Let this news sink in! Karine Jean-Pierre, the trailblazing former White House press secretary under President Joe Biden, has done just that. In her forthcoming memoir, Independent, set for release next month, Jean-Pierre lays bare a seismic personal reckoning: her decision to sever ties with the Democrat Party she once served with unyielding devotion.
Her story isn't just a footnote in the annals of post-2024 election fallout; it's a clarion call for a growing cadre of "hardened Democrats" who, after decades of fealty, can no longer stomach the party's lurch toward ruthless pragmatism at the expense of principle, moral and constitutional values.
Jean-Pierre's epiphany struck like a thunderbolt on that fateful July day in 2024, when Biden, in a subdued phone call to his inner circle, announced his withdrawal from the presidential race. The man who had poured over five decades into public service, surviving personal tragedies, legislative battles, and the crucible of the vice presidency, was, in her words, "totally at peace."
The story doesn’t end there.......
But what about Jean-Pierre? She defied expectations. "I was stunned, my feelings a blur. I was frustrated and sad. I was enraged and heartbroken," she recounts in the book. What gnawed at her most was the betrayal from within: a party that had elevated her, shaped her career, and propelled her to historic heights now turning on its champion with the cold efficiency of a corporate boardroom purge.
Let’s not forget she was the face, voice, and embodiment of everything Democrat. For Jean-Pierre, the Democrat Party wasn't merely a political home; it was the architect of her life's narrative. From grinding on Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign to serving in his administration and ultimately breaking barriers as the first Black woman and openly gay press secretary in White House history, every milestone bore the party's imprint.
"The Democratic Party had defined my life, and career," she writes. "Every action I took to improve people's lives had a connection to the Democratic Party." Yet, as Biden's cognitive stumbles post-debate became fodder for anonymous leaks and public arm-twisting, that connection frayed into something unrecognizable.
She has become the victim and outcast. The party's elite, pundits, donors, and congressional lifers unleashed what Jean-Pierre damningly calls a "firing squad," pressuring the octogenarian president to step aside mere weeks after he'd clinched the primary.
The statement isn't hyperbole; it's the ugly underbelly of the Democrat machine that prizes electability over loyalty. Biden's exit paved the way for Kamala Harris's ill-fated bid, but it left scars that no amount of post-mortem spin could heal.
"Never had I considered leaving the party until now," she confesses. Channeling her disillusionment into action, she envisioned her debut post-announcement on ABC's The View, a liberal bastion, as a pivot point. "Now the cloud of unease hovering over me solidified into an idea about how I could possibly do something different," she reflects. "How I could channel my disappointment into some kind of concrete action that would allow me to fight for what I believed in without giving blind loyalty to a party I felt no longer deserved it."
And so, in a moment of quiet defiance, she declared, "You know what? I’m going to become independent. I don’t think I can stomach being in the Democratic Party anymore.'"
It was a gut-wrenching severance, announced publicly in June and that’s when the fecal matter hit the fan!
Jean-Pierre, a veteran of multiple Democrat campaigns and a former MSNBC analyst, didn't arrive at this lightly. It took courage to denounce the very institution that had handed her the megaphone. And now they'll make sure she never gets it back!
Diehards are hemorrhaging from the Democrat Party, and has turned into a life-bleeding artery severed at the neck.
Look at it this way. These aren't fringe malcontents or opportunistic flip-floppers; they're hardened loyalists, activists, donors, and high-end operatives dumping the party and burning the bridges behind them!
As the Democrat Party dissolves, their most hardened patrons lose hope of the resurrection of the Party but see it as a Titanic, sinking fast, and very few will survive.
Final Word: Karine Jean-Pierre, sometimes the hardest choice is the one that sets you free. Your master has failed you; enjoy your new freedom.
"I Have a Dream", a 1963 speech by Martin Luther King, Jr. that concludes "Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"
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