1. Because they knew what her political leanings were, and probably knew about this thesis, and they liked it.
2. Because her type of ‘egghead’ academic approach to the world (which is ironically neither academic or worldly) mirrors what too many in the top rungs of politics (including policy advisors and think tanks) think.
3. Pajama boy IS what these people think of as a ‘modern, progressive man’, and she is the female version of the same.
4. Blew the right guy in power