As you see in the very title of their paean to junior senator from New York (D-of course), How Kirsten Gillibrand Is Outsmarting Donald Trump, they meant it to be entirely adulatory. However, the article's author, Tessa Stuart, was so blinded in admiration for her subject that she failed to notice that she accidentally revealed Gillibrand's utter duplicity.
Perhaps Stuart was so blinded by Gillibrand's "brilliance" that it allowed a very ugly truth to slip out. Let us first jump in when Stuart was in the process of pouring out love for Gillibrand that kept oozing right up to the moment of the embarrassing revelation:
Even as Kirsten Gillibrand has charted a meteoric political rise, she has maintained the ability to fly ever so slightly under the radar, exploiting opponents' consistent failure to recognize her as a lethal political threat. Since Trump's inauguration, the junior senator from New York has earned the distinction of being, statistically, the chamber's most anti-Trump member (voting against the president's position 93.7 percent of the time), and her steadfast opposition to Trump's Cabinet picks won her legions of new admirers.
...It makes sense, of course, that Congress' most unapologetic feminist would be best positioned to channel the white-hot rage that drove millions of women to take to the streets in protest of Trump's inauguration. "We are at a very intense moment," she says. "If you're not fighting, you're going to lose."
And then Tessa Stuart let slip with this description of a very deceitful Pander Queen:
A decade ago, Gillibrand would have been an unlikely candidate to lead "the resistance." Democratic colleagues dismissed her as "Tracy Flick." Representing a largely rural upstate district, she was protective of gun rights, opposed amnesty for undocumented immigrants and supported increased funding for border security. But as a senator, she has found her way to more progressive positions – in some cases, complete reversals – by treating every issue as a women's issue: from paid family leave, equal pay, and justice for victims of sexual assault in the military to gun control, immigration and jobs.
Right. When it was convenient, Gillibrand supported a set of policies to play to the upstate rural hicks which later as a leader of "The Resistance" in the Senate she now completely rejects. Apparently that "Tracy Flick" description by her fellow Democrats is still quite accurate.
And as part of acting the role of a leader of "The Resistance" she feels it mandatory to establish her edgy street credibility by crudely cursing.
That all too obvious well-planned cursing pander caused an outbreak of facepalming even among many of her fellow Democrats.
