Yep, impossible she could have been clueless about his radical leftism, especially considering how he seems to have ranted about it every opportunity he was given. Then she tells this absurd story that sounds like a little kid running off to join the circus. He was going to Washington to work on tax policy, so he sells a bunch of his stuff and is gone for months, and she acts like he's running down to the grocery store? "Oh, you're running off to Washington to work on tax policy, whatever that means, and you will be gone for an indeterminate number of months?....OK, have a good time, and don't forget to write once in a while!"
Leftists/libs/progressives are truly, truly nuts.