“They were asking why Mr. Klain, the former White House chief of staff who ran the preparations, would in their view allow him to be overloaded with statistics…”
Whoever decided to go the route with stats and other crap is an idiot. Biden is best when he's Uncle Joe or Dark Brandon not spewing percentages no one cares about.
Warren is so good at schooling overinflated egos. I wish we lived in the timeline where she had a real shot at president. (I was devastated by the depth of sexism that showed up when she tried.)
I was pondering your comment. I think Congress is much better for wonks. Committee meetings are much better for adversarial exchanges. I literally can’t remember the last time a President directly dressed someone down. A sniping remark here or a State of the Union address there but nothing so blunt.
Warren's version of dressing dudes down typically involves facts, policy, and explaining complicated topics in a way that a layperson can remember and understand.
She's an incredible teacher and communicator.
It's not about insults.
Also: She holds people to the fire on getting their facts right.
She'd absolutely call Trump out for lying, and then explain her points in a memorable way.
She's wonky, but in a way that leaves you convinced she cares AND also knows her stuff - it'd be passionate & compassionate, not cerebral.
I totally get what you’re saying. As two high information voters, good facts and data are important to us. To
The person who’s angry because the price at the pump is to high, nuanced discussions of the global nature of the oil market and how the little the President can actually effect the price at
the pump goes right over their heads (or maybe that they get it, but still don’t give a fuck. “Maybe the other guy can make prices lower!”) In thinking how a wonk could win, they’d need to pull one from the Ross Perot playbook. Book half-hour TV slots to actually be able to educate rather just stump
