One of the things that happens a lot on the center right is adjudicating who you're still willing to talk to after a reporter calls you a white supremacist or a stooge of Putin.
It can get pretty ridiculous. You can have a street and a train station named after your family in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and some random person with a laptop can say you're part of the KKK.
You can be officially banned, as I am, from traveling to Russia - not just for marrying a McCain but for humanitarian work preceding it - and it doesn't stop Daily Beast writers from saying you literally work for the dictator who banned you.
Tulsi is experiencing a bit of this right now. Dipshit journos parroting Kamala talkers about Trojan Horse stuff only reveal how easily they are used. Real obvious who those are. And none of it responds to the Tulsi critique.
At the end of the day, I take many of these people to be useful idiots without a real brain in their heads. But it's concerning how many of them have real platforms. It's like Jimmy Kimmel telling you what a bill says: Pretty dumb.
Oh, this is convenient: here's someone who misquoted me and my employees and smeared us as white supremacists. Zero humility. No engagement. Wanting to fix Baltimore is racist.
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