I would say that David Brock is losing his mind, except he hasn't had it in a long time. The only difference is that Hillary's guru is now making it obvious even to the media.
“Look, this is a lesson learned,” Brock told me for this week’s episode of POLITICO’s “Off Message” podcast. “Donald Trump intimidated the press and bullied the press. I’m not saying you have to intimidate and bully, but you have to be tough. The press are animals and they need to be treated that way.”
A new mission for Media Matters! Also more internal feuds. Brock slams the Clinton Foundation, Priorities USA...
Brock points to outside groups, especially Priorities USA, the pro-Clinton super PAC that raised nearly $200 million to run a spate of ads, many of them targeting Trump. “I don’t know where Priorities was,” said Brock, a longtime board member who was barred from decision-making at the group by federal law.
And Podesta...
And he’s still smarting over a rebuke, delivered via a tweet by campaign chairman John Podesta, when he demanded to see Sanders’ medical records as the Vermont independent was surging. “I tried to have a strategy with regards to Senator Sanders,” Brock said. “I was told by the campaign that there was none and nothing would work. I got in trouble when I requested his medical records. I got in trouble with the campaign -- the campaign was unhappy that I did that. I never knew if they were unhappy substantively, or they were just unhappy because they didn’t control it. This was a very controlling culture.”
Cheerful stuff. The question is where does Brock go next? There are few Clintonites more tethered to the Last Family than him. Progs never liked him much and he burned his last bridges there during the campaign. And with the left in ascendance and Brock's usefulness dubious, the defector may have finally run out his political life on the left.