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In reply to the discussion: The whining among Democrats over the Hunter Biden pardon is a symptom of what is wrong with the party. [View all]Orrex
(64,664 posts)And not just door-knocking. Actual, high-end strategy and coordination. Her house is full of pics of her and her husband and her kids with Clinton. They're on a first-name basis and can call to chat.
She no longer lives in DC, but she's in frequent contact with her associates there, and she confirms that they are completely out of touch with the reality outside of the Beltway. Case in point, when Trump was blathering about kids coming home from school after having gender-affirming surgery, the DC team laughed it off as obviously ridiculous, which it was.
But what they didn't understand is that to rural and backwoods assholes, Trump had described a very real and active threat to children. While the orange prolapse was whipping up his base of fuckheads, the DC thinkers were chuckling about it.
So now, while those circles are tut-tutting over this pardon, they're once again completely blind to the attitudes on the ground, and it makes them look like ivory tower proceduralists rather than dedicated professionals working on behalf of their constituents.
The circular firing squad will be fine once we have a 75 seat majority in the Senate and 350 seats in the House, but until then they need to stop competing to see who can affect the most righteous indignation.
(I know, I know: "unnamed well-connected sources" and all that.)
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