I simply cannot muster even the slightest fuk about her not getting this position. I understand it from the standpoint of political warfare - the idea that you don't want any "defeats" early on but even then I simply don't care. We have to be able to police our own side - and Tanden is garbage.
Remember when trump was talking about how we should take Iraq's oil to pay for our troops? Neera was saying the same shyt years before re: Libya.
Remember when Netanyahu was basically pissing all over Obama, openly trying to sabotage his foreign policy; nominating ppl who called Obama anti semitic (and worse) to important positions; coming straight to the US to talk all kinds of shyt about Obama; lecturing him on national fukking TV and playing footsie with the GOP and Clinton affiliated Dems (incl financial supporters)? This mfer literally came to Congress (invited by REPUBLICANS) to try and derail Obama's signature foreign policy objectives. She not only invites Netanyahu to come speak to her organization, BUT then 1) starts questioning whether her organizations blog should ever talk about Israeli-Palestinian issues 2) allows various interest groups to basically create a process that subjects any pieces mentioning Israeli politics to go through additional editing and 3) essentially tries to censor any views that don't line up with the mainstream AIPAC/hawkish Dem views on foreign policy.
The worst part is that she did all of this shyt mainly bc she was a Clinton loyalist who calculated that distinguishing themselves are more pro Israel than the Obama administration was going to help her in 2016. You can trace the lineage of this foreign policy thinking all the way back to the Iraq war. She doubled down on it (and lost) in 2008. And 8 fukking years later still running with the same playbook.