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Showing Original Post only (View all)Cassandra Fairbanks Loved Bernie Sanders. Now She's a Donald Trump Superfan. [View all]
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.