The Politico piece, excerpted from her new book Hacked, basically lets the modern Democratic Party have it between the eyes. She bad-mouths Obama, Clinton and Wasserman-Schultz like no Republican has, equipped as she is with inside scoops.
Her tone is kind of hard to swallow. Knowing her history, going clear back to the Mondale campaign of 1984, and her prominent role in the 2000 Gore campaign, this "I-stepped-into-the-DNC-leadership-role-and-became-aghast-at-what-I-saw" narrative doesn't quite ring true.
But the details she provides on how Obama saddled the DNC with $24 million in debt, how Clinton kept nearly all contributions for herself, leaving down-ballot candidates with meager resources, and how Wasserman-Schultz let consultants come on board for cushy remuneration are not the stuff of someone interested in repairing frayed relationships.
The question of why she's doing this looms. I don't think she's having a conversion experience to Edmund Burke conservatism. She no doubt would still like to see statism prevail. And she has to know that her provision of debate questions ahead of time to Clinton when she was on the CNN panel is still fresh in the public's mind, which makes her stance of noble manager above the fray ring a bit hollow.
In any event, she has aired Dem dirty laundry at a time of particular weakness. There's not a bench to speak of for the 2020 presidential go-round, save for Bernie Sanders, the geriatric socialist who comes off as the only laudable figure in her story.
Maybe the two of them have plans to start a new party.
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