Just ten years ago, a mild-mannered former D.C. lobbyist directly attacking his former colleagues at a Politico “health care summit” would have been unheard of.
You can almost hear the breathless, panicked phone calls and anonymous complaints to the media from indignant industry actors: “What about decorum?”
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In the social circles of the permanent ruling class, which includes legacy media, the pressure to conduct oneself in a “civil” manner — meaning never aggressively challenging the power structure — was once so immense that one could scarcely imagine a Calley Means taking the fight to them right to their face.
This is the political revolution that Trump spearheaded way back in 2015 when he
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