That article is what we used to call a CLM. A career limiting move.
Be happy they revealed their stupidity early and that they will never become a politician of consequence.
It doesn’t matter if they reveal their stupidity now or in the future. This kid has a bright future in Democratic Party politics, where this nonsense is de rigueur.
Obama laid out his stupidity, personal pathologies and historical ignorance in two books. He was praised as the greatest intellect of all ages, a Solomonic, even God-like figure. He was elected twice. Whatever weed-induced paroxysms he put to paper in his undergrad days were thoroughly 86’d by a compliant media.