Who is wallowing? I'm dropping a reminder that even though she was roundly criticized / dismissed, she was stating what would later be understood to be objective fact.
Why does the Secretary of HLS first attend these "operations" in the first place? I mean there's an entire department of people to do it (wrong as it is).
2/2 Did it give many courage, "justification", endorsement? Also, absolutely.
But political impact? I think any political impact resulted from those people finding their voice and making it heard, not the body politic experiencing revelation.