Seems like the press is having a really good time with this.... Rightfully so? Please debate.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/editorial-hillary-reminds-america-why-she-lost/article/2011909
Mrs. Clinton was never a talented politician. Like many another former officeholder, she thought most voters were idiots and often didn’t have sense enough to pretend otherwise. She proudly heaped scorn on voters who weren’t inclined to back her—her infamous “basket of deplorables” remark is still shocking to read—and thereby managed to lose an election to a man who did everything in his power to make himself unelectable.
Her supporters like to pretend that that’s not what she did, and that she is in reality a charitable and interesting person. People might begin to believe them, too—if only she would keep quiet.
But, alas for us all, she cannot. Already since her 2016 defeat, she has written another lengthy memoir and given innumerable talks and speeches about the reasons for her defeat; and the reasons always seem to involve the stupidity and backwardness of the people who couldn’t be persuaded to embrace her. At a confab in Mumbai last weekend, for instance, Clinton explained her loss in this way:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/editorial-hillary-reminds-america-why-she-lost/article/2011909
Mrs. Clinton was never a talented politician. Like many another former officeholder, she thought most voters were idiots and often didn’t have sense enough to pretend otherwise. She proudly heaped scorn on voters who weren’t inclined to back her—her infamous “basket of deplorables” remark is still shocking to read—and thereby managed to lose an election to a man who did everything in his power to make himself unelectable.
Her supporters like to pretend that that’s not what she did, and that she is in reality a charitable and interesting person. People might begin to believe them, too—if only she would keep quiet.
But, alas for us all, she cannot. Already since her 2016 defeat, she has written another lengthy memoir and given innumerable talks and speeches about the reasons for her defeat; and the reasons always seem to involve the stupidity and backwardness of the people who couldn’t be persuaded to embrace her. At a confab in Mumbai last weekend, for instance, Clinton explained her loss in this way:
