Liberals can learn something from Kim Kardashian
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Last week, President Trump commuted the prison sentence of Alice Johnson, a first-time nonviolent drug offender who had served 21 years of a life sentence without possibility of parole. Her release was championed by Kim Kardashian West, a reality TV star who was moved to her cause after hearing about it on the internet.
Kardashian West met with Trump at the White Houseto urge him to release Johnson. A week later he did just that.
Her meeting provoked anger and confusion among Trump’s critics. But what it should have done is showed them the error of their ways: Engaging Trump has rewards. Whining to the universe about him doesn’t.
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Harron Walker definitively declared, in the title of her piece on the Jezebel website, that “Kim Kardashian’s Meeting With Donald Trump Did NOT In Fact Go Well.” Kyle Munzenrieder in W Magazine warned that “any association with Trump and his White House has proven to be a toxic move for most” and that Kardashian West might “tarnish her relatively safe and mainstream nonpolitical-to-vaguely-liberal brand.”
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