A big Seattle name is in the election battlegrounds — helping Trump

“The Democrats were the party of slavery, and of slave owners — that’s in their history,” Sawant raged at one point.

The absurdity and lack of context in this statement is so fucking ridiculous that it made curse words that have caused me to get temporarily banned from communities on lemmy before.

Context: I live in Seattle, consider myself super left, but have despised this woman for a decade or more.

"Cutting off one's nose to spite one's face" is an expression used to describe a needlessly self-destructive overreaction to a problem: "Don't cut off your nose to spite your face" is a warning against acting out of pique, or against pursuing revenge in a way that would damage oneself more than the object of one's anger.