'The Dumbest S--t Ever': Ex-Pelosi Adviser Gets Candid About Jeffries

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

79% : "Trump is just giving us all this incredible red meat.
61% : After all, Pelosi had decades to hone her skills before she met her greatest match in Trump.
55% : In many ways, Pelosi operated like the conductor of a sprawling orchestra, bringing in liberal groups when she needed them to fire at Trump and cueing moderates when she needed the center to cool down the left.
50% : For Playbook Deep Dive's podcast this week, I invited the woman who ran the former speaker's anti-Trump war room, Ashley Etienne, to discuss Democrats' latest efforts to find a path back to political relevance.
46% : She knew exactly what turn of phrase would make Trump go ballistic -- and she'd often press his buttons for maximum impact at just the moment to suit her needs.
45% : And the former speaker would regularly quash progressive ideas bubbling up in her own caucus, from Medicare for All to the Green New Deal.
41% : That very morning, she noted, Jeffries was giving a speech about 100 days fighting Trump, but no one from his team sent talking points about what he said.
22% : I remember it well from covering her: Behind the scenes, she'd green light people like then-Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) or other frontline members to blast ideas from the left -- like impeaching Trump or defunding the police and ICE -- as dumb politics.
21% : But it "might also suggest maybe you don't have a handle on the caucus -- or you don't have a hand on how to actually land some punches on Donald Trump.

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