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Perhaps you are unfamiliar with Kamala Harris, who to my knowledge has worked for Alameda County, the City and County of San Francisco, the State of California, and as a U.S. Senator, but not in private practice. She hasn't left by any door, revolving or otherwise.
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This is what I wrote:
"Do you think being a prosecutor and being corporate are two different things? That's a revolving door like any other. Usually, however, it only turns once, when the prosecutor cashes out in the private sector, or when he or she runs for higher office and seeks corporate money to do so."
You're asserting that working for corporate interests as a Senator is not "corporate." OK. Technically, it's not. She remained and if elected President will remain a public official. But I'm comfortable characterizing someone who is soliciting corporate cash (she, Buttigieg, and Biden are top corporate fundraisers, despite her saying she would not accept corporate money), which involves telling corporate donators how your policies will be friendly toward them, as corporate.
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DC is full of revolving doors, but usually for political positions. Almost all prosecutors are career people.
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In the past two years alone our TV stations have been inundated with stories about Barr and Mueller, two prosecutors who've been back and forth several times.
At state level, where Harris worked, the revolving door spins even more frequently. It's highly common for a local DA to jump into private practice, then get called to run some agency for a few years, then jump back into private practice again. It's an accepted form of resume building.
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They tend to move between government service and private practice once, when they leave the former for the latter. That's a turnstile, not a revolving door. I was one of the few exceptions to that rule.
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I think you're less unique than you think.
Yuck. I thought she was a bullshitter, an operator of sorts. I didn't think she was a nihilist/law 'n order psycho.
My adjectives stand adjusted. "Corporate" leanings are the least of her flaws. I think I'll focus on "authoritarian" and nihilistic in the future.
God, she seriously fucking sucks. That reads like something about a right wing Republican.
