Conservatives Clutch Their Pearls After Biden Aide Calls GOPers ‘Bunch Of F*ckers’

CHEVY CHASE, MD -- AUGUST 14: Jen O’Malley Dillon is the Biden Campaign Manager…. (photo by Andre Chung for The Washington Post)
Biden campaign manager Jen O’Malley Dillon (Andre Chung for The Washington Post via Getty Images)
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After four years of delighting in President Donald Trump’s unapologetically spiteful crusade to “own the libs,” conservatives are now suddenly scandalized by incivility after former Biden campaign manager Jen O’Malley Dillon, who will serve as President-elect Joe Biden’s White House deputy chief of staff, mentioned in explicit terms the difficulty of working with the GOP.

Dillon made the comment during an interview with Glamour on Tuesday as she was discussing Biden’s push for unity with Republicans despite the GOP obstructing Democrats at virtually every turn.

“In the primary, people would mock him, like, ‘You think you can work with Republicans?’ I’m not saying they’re not a bunch of fuckers. Mitch McConnell is terrible,” the Biden aide said. “But this sense that you couldn’t wish for that, you couldn’t wish for this bipartisan ideal? He rejected that.”

Conservatives, including people who work for the Trump campaign, were utterly aghast at Dillon’s rudeness:

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