Karine Jean-Pierre can't stop making history. Earlier this year, the former White House press secretary became the highest-ranking openly queer, French-born black woman with a hyphenated surname to publicly renounce the Democratic Party for being mean to Joe Biden. She is the only black female lesbian immigrant to publish a book about her time in the Biden administration. It is the worst political memoir ever written in the history of the English language.
This is not hyperbole. It's an especially vacuous genre and highly competitive, to be sure. But imagine writing a book so bad it could shame Democrats and liberals into second-guessing their cult-like devotion to DEI. That's what Jean-Pierre has done with Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines.
In 2022, Jean-Pierre's promotion to White House press secretary was hailed—by Democrats and journalists (to the extent there's a difference)—as a triumph for diversity and representation. She is now widely viewed, in the words of a reporter who worked with her, as "the most incompetent and irrelevant White House press secretary ever." Former colleagues describe her as "ineffectual," "unprepared," and "kind of dumb." Looking back on the Great Awokening of 2020, one can't help but marvel at what Jean-Pierre has managed to achieve.
Democrats are finally starting to connect the dots, casting Jean-Pierre as a cautionary tale of what can happen when a desire to "make history" takes precedence over everything else. "If Democrats really want to help minorities, they have to stop defending incompetence," wrote Zaid Jilani, a former blogger at the left-wing Center for American Progress. "Karine Jean-Pierre was never good at her job, and it took progressives four years to admit it."
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