Listening to the DC/LK interview for the BBC, it's striking how important a factor the possibility of a Corbyn government was in Cummings' thinking, and how uninterested Kuenssberg is in discussing that.
It's fun hearing Kuenssberg's shock outrage at the idea that a couple of dozen people from with Vote Leave were deciding who should be Prime Minister. Like, does she not know that that's how things are supposed to work in this system, and that was why Corbyn was such a threat?
The scandal of Corbyn was that he did everything by the book - he was fairly elected by Labour Party members, presented a social democratic programme to the country and reversed his party's decline.
When Corbyn's own MPs and bureaucrats failed to stop him in 2016-17, the rightwing establishment installed an incompetent chancer as PM and ran an election campaign built around insulting lies, while the media loudly insisted that Corbyn was a racist.
We are now supposed to believe that Corbyn was a ludicrously unpopular aberration from grown up politics. But Cummings is honest enough to admit that, no, he was the most serious threat to the Thatcherite settlement in decades and we had to trash the place to stop him.
h/t @Simon_Vessey, who figured all this out yesterday.
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