Al Franken had a conversation with Anne Nelson, and you’ve got to hear it. Then, if you want to complain about Democratic leadership, you’ll have to make some ethical choices. She paints a disturbing portrait of the Shadow Network (the name of her 2015 book), the usual ‘suspects’ (Koch, deVos, ALEC etc) and what they get up to, and how it is successful or effective. If that is what the ‘conservative’ movement has to do… would we like to do the same?
Then there is the series of speeches Sheldon Whitehouse has been giving called “The Scheme”, also available on YouTube, starting a year ago. There are more than 14 of them. Where are the mischievous Democrats doing anything like that? Do we want such shenanigans? Ruthless people doing whatever it takes to gain and wield power for their implacable greed… should we hope for that?
Anyway, these are not elected leaders, they are the shadows skulking several moves behind the public face of the GOP...