The Democrats’ Real Enemy
It’s the Republicans, not those who seek our destruction
Washington Free Beacon Editors - December 17, 2020 5:00 AM
Glamour magazine's interview of Jen O'Malley Dillon, President-elect Joe Biden's campaign manager, was the talk of the Twitterati on Wednesday.
The Biden administration, Dillon told the softball-lobbing fashion mag, intends to forge a productive working relationship with its loyal opposition and is prepared to compromise to advance the urgent interests of the American people. Still, she felt compelled to make clear that Republicans are a "bunch of bleep."
"I’m not saying they’re not a bunch of bleep," Dillon declared. "Mitch McConnell is terrible."
While Democrats may be grumbling privately, according to Axios, those who weighed in on-the-record responded with one voice: You go, girl! Obama flack Tommy Vietor praised Dillon’s "direct, clear-eyed assessment" and told would-be critics not to "pretend that profanity is more obscene than letting people starve during a pandemic."
Our objection is certainly not to the vulgarity—but as long as we are not pretending, let’s not pretend this was a particularly brassy or memorable outburst (Vice President Dick Cheney set the bar when he told Senator Pat Leahy to go bleep himself on the floor of the Senate). Still, Dillon’s remark made clear that despite Biden’s mealy-mouthed talk about healing the country’s divisions and reaching across the aisle, his team considers the opposition to be an enemy with whom compromise is neither acceptable nor possible. It also got us wondering: When is the last time a prominent Democrat had harsh words like that for one of America’s actual foes?
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