Tzeentchean Perspective
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Oh wow, it looks like Jeff Sessions lost the Senate Primary in Alabama. Badly.
I think this poor, forced take from an NYT commentator is a good indicator of why he lost:
Part of this is on me for tuning out of all news for a long time from 2017-2018 because it was all bitchiness and noise, but from here it seems like he didn't do what people were expecting.
Here's a thread by Larry Schweikart with his view of what Sessions time amounted to:
Note that he mentions Kris Kobach was part of a Voter Fraud commission that supposedly withered on the vine. I bring this up because I remember Ann Coulter supposedly saying that her advice to Trump about hiring Kris Kobach went unmentioned (back before I realized she was just twisting the truth for clicks). Now I know the truth the Kobach WAS working for the administration, his work just didn't amount to much.
I think this poor, forced take from an NYT commentator is a good indicator of why he lost:
This wasn't about Sessions promoting anyone's ideas, it was about his questionable record as Attorney General. It seems like supporters of his latest run place so much emphasis on Sessions time in the Senate while leaving out (for the most part) what should've been the even more position of Attorney General. The most of heard was one claim that he "laid the groundwork" for things Barr took action on. Then there was another news site mentioning that Sessions appointed John Huber to oversee an investigation into Hillary Clinton and...yeah, still no definitive word on that one. I heard from a few places that it was closed, but I definitely feel like there wasn't nearly enough of a media blowback for a story supposedly that ended with "investigation into Hillary turns up empty" if that were really the case. Example: did Tucker mention it? I'm sure he would've launched into a 15-minute rant about how there's still no accountability in Washington. Breitbart might've head a bright-red headline on the front page saying something like "Hillary off the hook?". Something else is going on.Sessions’s defeat makes a strong case that Trumpism is more about the man than the ideas. No one has been a bigger promoter of the ideas that Trump ran on than Jeff Sessions.
Part of this is on me for tuning out of all news for a long time from 2017-2018 because it was all bitchiness and noise, but from here it seems like he didn't do what people were expecting.
Here's a thread by Larry Schweikart with his view of what Sessions time amounted to:
Note that he mentions Kris Kobach was part of a Voter Fraud commission that supposedly withered on the vine. I bring this up because I remember Ann Coulter supposedly saying that her advice to Trump about hiring Kris Kobach went unmentioned (back before I realized she was just twisting the truth for clicks). Now I know the truth the Kobach WAS working for the administration, his work just didn't amount to much.