The world of politics is a strange and dangerous place to be. Recently a senior British MP saw career disappear when it was revealed she’d claimed her telecom bill on expanses but unfortunately it also included the cost of two PPV porn movies (watched by her hubby, ouch). Forget the 20+ years she’d put into it.
Heartland occupy (occupied) this world. It seems these sorts of organisations exist because there are donor individuals or organisations that want to support this work while remaining at a distance from the fight. The downfall came when Heartland handed over the donor list to it’s enemies thus placing the donors exactly where they didn’t want to be. I suspect they were after another big splash following Fakegate to cement them as leaders in the debate. Instead it just highlighted them as a lose canon in the eyes of their donors. Hindsight suggests they misread the importance of Fakegate.
And thus the world of politics takes another scalp.
There is a certain amount of Schadenfreude to see these falls from grace so it seems foolish to deny the warmists their fun but the whole episode, Fakegate and The Billboard, seem peripheral to the real debate.
