There Are More Red Flags Than Just Neera Tanden’s Tweets
Both Senate committees handling Neera Tanden’s confirmation postponed key votes and meetings Wednesday
I have one lasting memory of Neera Tanden’s campaign season tweets and it’s not a good one, unfortunately. A Twitter mutual of mine, a young person with some political experience, lightly mocked Tanden in a reply on the social media platform. In return, Tanden, who runs perhaps the largest progressive policy firm in the U.S., tagged the young person’s employer, at the time a progressive Senate campaign, in a reply.
The message was clear: Tanden didn’t think this young person should be working on a Senate campaign because they made a joke at her expense.
Is this something that happens a lot in politics Twitter? Yes and no. I think most people would agree that Tanden is simply too online, but who isn’t these days?
Some have compared Tanden’s online presence to that of noted Twitter troll, former ambassador, and unconfirmed Trump cabinet member, Richard Grenell. (I’ve had Twitter clashes with him as well.) It’s been rightfully noted that Grenell’s tweets didn’t seem to hold him back from becoming a large presence within the Trump administration, but many Biden voters presumably want to set the bar a little…
