Bush-Era Republicans Flourished as Anti-Trumpers — Scott Jennings Took a Different Path

Everybody loves a good heel. A heel — the professional wrestling term that describes the charming villain character — is the guy you just love to hate. His role in the grand pageantry of wrestling is to be the instigator. He’s there to rile up the crowd, inciting boos and jeers with his provocative persona.

On CNN, and to liberals everywhere, Scott Jennings is that heel.

The former GOP political operative has spent much of this millennium advising and working on campaigns (and in the White House) for some of the biggest names in Republican politics. But he grew up the son of a union worker, in the lone liberal bastion of a red state, born to a family that historically voted blue. These days he spends his time jousting with left-wing pundits on CNN.

Clips of him sparring with a roundtable of red-faced pundits, telling them the things they are saying are nutty, go viral on a daily basis. Despite fending off multiple agitated and sometimes outright hysterical opponents every night, Jennings does it all with a smile on his face.

“I think he relishes a role in challenging the overwhelmingly liberal audience,” Van Jones, a former adviser to President Barack Obama and Jennings’s fellow CNN commentator, told the Daily Caller. […]

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