Lindy Li at one time was a great force in the Democratic Party. She is now leaving the party, calling it a “cult.”
Li, a prominent Democratic National Committee (DNC) fundraiser, announced that she is leaving the Democratic Party after facing attacks for her criticism of Vice President Kamala Harris last week, Fox News reported.
Li, a Democrat strategist, who was a member of the DNC’s national fundraising committee, raised “10s of millions of dollars” for Democratic candidates.
Li was criticized earlier this month when she supported Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s defense secretary nominee.
“This past week has been harrowing for me,” Li told Piers Morgan last week. “This Saturday, I went on ‘Fox & Friends’ and I said ‘Democrats have a stench of loser hanging over them.’ As soon as I said that, there were boycott campaigns against me. Unblock, unfollow campaigns.”
That comment alone cost her 40,000 followers in four days. She was also attacked by the same people she defended for years.
Li said on “Fox & Friends” Harris is “indulging in delusions” of possibly running for governor of California in 2026 or president in 2028 run. She added the Democratic Party was plagued by the “stench of loser” after November’s loss.
“People have called me a whore, the ‘C-word.’ They asked for me to be deported …,” she said.
Li said she was accused of being a “communist spy.”
“They’re calling me a spy for the regime that killed my great-grandfather and these are the people who call themselves the social justice warriors,” she said. “They’re going headfirst into racism anytime someone dares to disagree with them. I want to be a part of the team that says men are men and women are women and men shouldn’t play in women’s sports.”
She told Morgan she feels like the party who claims to take the moral high ground has been unmasked.
“All these so-called Democrats, the party of inclusion, the party of diversity, masks off. And it’s even worse because they pretend to occupy the moral high ground,” she said. “They pretend to be so loving and caring and embracing of diversity but all of a sudden, when I dare to utter any criticisms of the goddess Kamala Harris, I get ostracized. Me, after having raised tens of millions of dollars for the party.”
“My donors are pissed …it’s my responsibility to ask what the hell happened with their money … these are legitimate questions, but no, in the cult, you can’t ask questions,” she continued. “And leaving the Democratic Party or even questioning the Democratic Party is like leaving a cult. It’s terrifying. I don’t want to be a part of this craziness anymore. They’re accelerating my rightward shift.”
Li said the party has only itself to blame but themselves for its decrease in fundraisers.
“They’re shrinking their tent. They’re basically pushing me to bring my tens of millions of dollars that I’ve raised and can continue to raise to a different team that treats me better, that treats me with common decency,” she said.
