Political consultant Lis Smith has spent twenty years working for Democratic figures like Pete Buttigieg. What does she have to show for it? onesarahjones writes
Photo: M. Scott Brauer/Redux Lis Smith entered politics after watching The War Room, the 1992 documentary about Bill Clinton’s successful bid for the presidency. She had an “itch,” the political consultant writes in her new memoir, Any Given Tuesday. The 2004 presidential campaign scratched it. First, though, she had to pick a candidate, and John Edwards drew her in. But why?
The absence matters. For some people, politics is an idealistic affair. They’ve got something real on the line: loved ones at risk, a community on the brink. In a country as radically unequal as our own, there are as many reasons to care about politics as there are blights on the national conscience. Then there are people like Smith. For them politics is a game without stakes, offering a path to personal self-actualization, a lot of money, and little else.
The smugness emanates from Smith. It’s easier to attack the left, as Smith does in her memoir, than it is to admit the party’s big-tent strategy is failing. Like her, it’s often not clear what Democrats really stand for. Abortion rights? Democrats are for them until it’s time to campaign for Henry Cuellar. Worried about the climate? Good luck getting past Senator Kyrsten Sinema and her commitment to the filibuster. The GOP, by contrast, can boast a cohesive identity and a common set of goals.
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