Kamala getting a speaking gig was irrelevant, she hadn't done it then. But it plays into a sense that Democratic electeds are malleable careerists, not reliable fighters on "our" behalf. 1/

It's not fair that Trump gets to be an absolute self-dealing piece of shit openly, and his fans admire him for that while much of the D coalition would condemn and never vote for someone who played it that way. It's not fair but it's real. /fin