Robby Mook is Exactly Who We Thought He Was

Clinton campaign manager and vapid grinning doofus hack Robby Mook is teaming up with Corey Lewandowski—the female-journalist-assualting buzz-cut-having, fired-as-hell former Trump campaign manager—for a series of paid talks that are being billed as a “future-focused look at why Trump won.” Buzzfeed reports that the two could make more than ten thousand dollars per speech in a tour that will likely take them to “corporate gatherings, trade conferences, and universities.”

By teaming up with a guy like Lewandowski and padding his own wallet, Mook proves that our worst stereotypes of political flacks are, at least in this case, true. Politics can be a game, and politics can be a cynical cash grab, but as for actually believing in something, beyond the glibbest kind of self-centered neoliberalism? Not happening. Chances are, Mook thinks this is what he deserves—a natural rite in the life cycle of a political boy wonder. In that way, he’s the perfect avatar for the failed Clinton campaign. So he’ll take the money, offer his meaningless insights alongside the man Hamilton Nolan called a “vile opportunist,” and meanwhile, all around them, the world will burn.