• RichCaffeineFlavor@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    She is (or at least one of) the head of a massive informal organization that bridges massive formal organizations like Emily’s List, Planned Parenthood, the DNC itself, and so on.

    When a president wins an election for example, they have to get their staff from somewhere right? There has to be large numbers of people who can just drop what they’re doing based on the outcome of an election and spend the next several years doing that instead. These people staff NGOs in the orbit of the political ruling classes of these parties. Hillary Clinton is one of the most powerful people in the country because she can decide who gets the best jobs in these organizations. She can get journalists fired, she can get ambassadors hired. That’s her power.

    Obama beat her and still had to deal with her to the point of setting her up to run in 2016. She didn’t join his organization he became a ‘board member’ of hers with a small cadre of his own people.