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Originally Posted by jman220
It’s amazing to me how much hate this forum had for her, not 30 days ago, and how now she’s like second only to AOC and maybe BHO in terms of GPOAT. Granted she’s always been awesome and i’m old enough to remember 2006-2010, but it’s funny to watch everyone finally realize it.
I'm not sure there's as much of an inconsistency as you suggest. The context matters. Pelosi is doing a great job right now because she's right in her area of strength, which is navigating the procedural stuff in congress and applying pressure to the right people, etc. That's super valuable, and I don't think anyone was criticizing her for not being good enough at playing the political insider game. It's a whole separate thing to consider whether or not you want her as the face of the party from a retail politics perspective, which is where much of the criticism of her has been on the forum. People want a mobilizer to be the public face of the party at election time, and Pelosi is too much of an insider to fill that role.
All that to say - it's a different skill set to convince persuadable voters to show up to vote vs. applying the screws to congress critters. Let's applaud her for her yuge success giving Trump the first of what I hope will be many beatings, but let's not assume that means that she should be at the front of the party leading it into major elections.