Ebbie:

Strictly speaking, the people in PDQ's list were objects of the verb phrase "to face...harassment and character assasination...". Therefore LH is technically correct, although it is reasonable to construe his intention as including them as examples of the "best and brightest" noun clause which is the subject of the sentence. It is made even easier to so construe the sentence by PDQ's mistaken use of "like" for "as".


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