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"Elizabeth Warren says she has principles, and actually she adhered to them, but did she do it in the right way?" 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
One advantage Trump has in this media environment is that because he has absolutely no standards or principles he avoids the endless hair-splitting "hypocrisy" attacks the media always considers fair game no matter how trivial or arbitrary
The actual content of the story shows Warren forgoing resources she desperately needs to live up to her stated commitments, but the headline and lede frames it as hypocritical flip-flopping because there are inevitable edge cases. vox.com/recode/2020/2/…
You can't win, especially if you're campaigning for president while female
Honestly, any the cynical lesson for any liberal woman running for president in '24 or '28 is that you might as well take the Clay Davis position, because Warren left a lot of money on the table and it's gained her absolutely no credit whatsoever
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