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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCassandra Fairbanks Loved Bernie Sanders. Now She's a Donald Trump Superfan.
How a left-leaning anarchist and anti-rape activist became a leader of the far-right "Deplorable" movement.
"You don't know me but I just wanted to say hello," says a 50-ish man, clutching his drink and leaning in close. He recognized her its Cassandra Fairbanks, isnt it? from Twitter.
Fairbanks nods and smiles graciously, albeit a little awkwardly. This happens to her a lot: People recognize her her cascading blonde curls, aggressively pouty lips, sharply arched brows, the lyrics from a Bob Dylan song, tattooed on her collarbone, peeking out of her dress. This is what happens when youre any kind of social media star, but especially a right-wing, unapologetic #MakeAmericaGreatAgain Donald Trump fan (I love him, shes tweeted, on multiple occasions). People are kind of in awe that you actually exist.
She makes polite small talk with the man, taking long glugs of her cider. When he finally walks away, she exhales. "Twitter in real life," she laughs uncomfortably, as if she likes the Twitter part more than the real life part.
Were at Shellys Back Room, an old-timey cigar bar a few blocks from the White House where the stench of smoke will linger on our clothes and in our hair until we all take vigorous showers. The venerated watering hole is the hub of conservative Washington, and tonight, a new group of right-wingers has gathered to celebrate its takeover of the Republican Party. Its a Friday night in late February, near the end of the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), a four-day policy schmooze fest that marks the apex of the Republican social calendar. Unlike last year, when many Republicans still clung to the #NeverTrump mantle, this years attendees have, for the most part, coalesced around the president.
http://www.cosmopolitan.com/politics/a9653830/cassandra-fairbanks-donald-trump-deplorable/
Cosmo is being too kind, since Banks was NEVER on our side to fucking begin with... She went all in with Bernie to leech votes away from Hillary, and outs herself after her mission was accomplished... Just a textbook plain old-fashioned ratfucking operation that hooked tens of thousands of suckers on Twitter...
And she isn't the only one, either -- There are dozens of other high-profile faux-leftist pundits who didn't out themselves after the election, as I have repeatedly pointed out.
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)Oh FUCKaroo Banzai, dumbass!
Yes, most punk people I know worship serial sexual assaulting billionaire third-basers.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)That Cosmo writer should have been a bit sharper
Skinner
(63,645 posts)== BEGIN SNIP ==
In Ferguson, she says, her provocative posts caught the eye of the editor of Sputnik International, a Russian-owned news site. The site hired her in early 2015 and she moved to Washington, D.C., for the position. Soon after, she started to dip her brand of caustic commentary into the emerging presidential race.
== END SNIP ==
http://www.cosmopolitan.com/politics/a9653830/cassandra-fairbanks-donald-trump-deplorable/
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)And she turns out to be a big Trump supporter you say?
Shocking.
denbot
(9,901 posts)Drip drip drip..
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,047 posts)Amimnoch
(4,558 posts)Totally missed that.
mhw
(678 posts)the whole democratic primary. They demanded open primaries to benefit their RW agenda.
I remember the disruption & division.
The goal was to divide
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)Just look at HA Goodman and the "Sane Progressive".
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)gasbags got from Mother Russia?
tazkcmo
(7,303 posts)Somebody said something stupid somewhere. I don't know who this person is nor why I should know who she is and even if I did know who she is I still don't know why I give 2 twits about what she thinks about Shit Gibbon, Sen Sanders, Sec Clinton or the price of rice in China.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)because she was one of the most followed and re-tweeted pro-Bernie accounts during the primary...
Thank you for the info and I mean no disrespect to you when I say, "yawn.".
I do have a Twitter account so I can follow 3 people associated with the current episode of treason we're in but I rarely check it as their tweets are usually found here on DU.
DavidDvorkin
(19,495 posts)Tarheel_Dem
(31,244 posts)pnwmom
(109,006 posts)Gore1FL
(21,157 posts)But in fairness to your post shot, I don't know who she is, either.
progressoid
(50,000 posts)You Can Tell She's already losing interest in him.
This is a confused, troubled person who craves attention. Twitter, and now Cosmo, happily feed that craving.
mountain grammy
(26,658 posts)we have a white house full of them.
Fantastic Anarchist
(7,309 posts)And if she's with Trump now, good riddance to bad rubbish!