If you don’t know or follow Jesse Kelly on Twitter, you’re missing out. Not only is his fashion sense stellar (we still miss that mint green jacket), but he most always presents smart takes on all things political.
Yesterday, after the events that took place in Charlottesville, Va. on Saturday, Jesse took to Twitter to talk about his own experience running a campaign and how opponents use the term, ‘Nazi.’
https://twitter.com/JesseKellyDC/status/897098459655925760
We didn’t include the entire thread (we suggest you go read it), but this is what led to a bizarre and angry back and forth between Jesse and Cheri Jacobus:
https://twitter.com/JesseKellyDC/status/897099937959346176
Politics is dirty, yup.
Jacobus should have just left it alone:
you know that it was McCain who told a staffer to do this? Who was the staffer? What was hi title?
— Cheri Jacobus (@CheriJacobus) August 14, 2017
Jesse sent her a story from Politico, and Jon Gabriel also spoke up to verify his story:
As a resident of Arizona, I can vouch 100% for this thread. https://t.co/QD49yeazaB
— jon gabriel (@exjon) August 14, 2017
But that wasn’t enough for Cheri.
"The ADL names Stormfront, Vinlanders Social Club, and European Americans United — white supremacist groups — among ALIPAC supporters. "
— Cheri Jacobus (@CheriJacobus) August 14, 2017
https://twitter.com/JesseKellyDC/status/897224895523938305
Oh boy.
this is the part where a candidate backed by Nazis is still upset years and years later that he lost because it was exposed. https://t.co/K3mknp9vSx
— Cheri Jacobus (@CheriJacobus) August 14, 2017
Huh? What? Where did he say that at all?!
https://twitter.com/JesseKellyDC/status/897226245611683841
People in politics get broken every day.
says the guy blaming others for his election loss because the white supremacists liked him a bit too much. https://t.co/uLMetfzlg6
— Cheri Jacobus (@CheriJacobus) August 15, 2017
Stop it.
https://twitter.com/JesseKellyDC/status/897253931713257472
And there it is.
In Cheri’s defense, the 2016 election was not easy on her or for her, but attacking people like Jesse over a thread where he is explaining how ugly campaigns and people can be? The power of words like ‘Nazi’ from opponents?
Why do that?
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