Trippi in TNR
Noam Scheiber has a new profile piece on Joe in The New Republic.
An excerpt:
The thing to understand about Joe Trippi is that being an underdog is absolutely central to his identity. Trippi’s parents divorced when he was three months old, and his mom worked two waitressing jobs to put food on the table. Twenty-two years later, he dropped out of college to work as an organizer for Ted Kennedy’s presidential campaign. It is, in other words, no surprise that he would see himself as an outsider. What’s sometimes surprising is how pervasive the feeling is. At the height of the Dean phenomenon, when the world was ready to crown Dean the nominee, Trippi favored allusions to For Love of the Game, a movie about a washed-up pitcher on a lousy team who somehow pitches a perfect game against the Yankees. “We stink!” the Deaniacs would yell, adapting a line from the movie. “But we’re the best team in baseball right now.”
Or take his decision to join the Edwards campaign. Trippi first turned down the offer after meeting with John and Elizabeth in North Carolina. It was probably a wise decision, given that he suffers from Type 2 diabetes. (He also recently developed diabetic neuropathy, a condition that triggers an intense stabbing sensation; Trippi takes anti-seizure medication to control it.) A few weeks after declining the job, Trippi heard the rumor that Elizabeth’s cancer had recurred and Edwards was getting out of the race. “I’ve got msnbc going … and, um, you know, I’m laying back like this, going yeah, that’s really too bad. I really liked them. … So they walked out and said they were going to keep going.” Trippi was floored. “Here I am, feeling all sorry for myself with my anti-seizure medicine, and they can go.” Finally, Trippi said to himself, “Dude, you’re fifty-one. You spent your whole life trying to make a difference in politics. And you can make a difference with them. And they’re going to soldier on with this. Get up. Go to the phone. Call.”
In this sense, Trippi’s way of framing campaigns is almost a perfect extension of his personality. The Dean campaign delighted in attacking the Democratic establishment. Trippi quickly honed Edwards’s message along the same lines, which meant turning fire on Hillary Clinton. An e-mail Trippi sent out in September called Hillary a “corporate Democratic insider” and said that “there isn’t an American outside of Washington who would not be sickened” by a fund-raiser she planned to hold involving lobbyists and members of Congress. Edwards himself began channeling Dean, too. At a debate in August, Edwards took a veiled shot at Hillary so Dean-like it shocked some of his staffers. “You will never see a picture of me on the front of Fortune magazine saying, ‘I am the candidate that big corporate America is betting on,’” Edwards said, alluding to a cover story about Clinton. “That will never happen. That’s one thing you can take to the bank.”
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