>> to her becoming the first female president in American history.
To instead the inevitable loser.
Can’t believe they missed the obvious title, “Schlonged”.
To say Bernie and Joe were better candidates is “faint praise”.
We speculated at length if this might not have been the case. Clearly the swing to Trump was not sudden nor should it have been a surprise to any professional running the campaign in any normal way. They turned off the alarm system and flew blind, secure in an illusion of inevitability, and found out that the clouds were full of rocks.
True, Hillary was an almost grotesquely unattractive candidate: imperious, arrogant, entitled, and corrupt, corrupt, corrupt. It was not so much a matter of her failure to appeal to certain key demographics - working class people, flyover zone inhabitants - as it was an active aura of disdain and dismissal. Stating in public that not only was she happy to see coal miners lose their jobs but would do what she could to make it happen is only one example. Had she been more diplomatic and sympathetic that might have been walked back, but neither of those qualities is in her. They were her class enemies and must be destroyed. And they destroyed her.
This disdain extended to optics as well - somebody actually had to point out that her convention was embarrassingly free of American flags, for heaven's sake, before that was corrected. This was not an oversight, it was a reflection that she did and does not love the country, only those pieces of it that are bonded together by a sense of resentment and entitlement. That was the coalition she intended to ride to power and the one she intended to reward, and anyone not in it knew exactly what she was about. When her supporters responded to "Make America Great Again" with "America Was Never Great" the mask was torn off for good.
And so yes, it was a terrible, clumsy, repellent, resentful, mean-spirited campaign to put someone in office who was exactly like that. Thank God it failed.
Just think how inept they would have been when it came to running the country. We didn’t just dodge a bullet, we dodged a nuclear bomb.
When one is willing to eschew reality and tell her advisers, “Tell me something good”, one gets a lot of surprises....
I’m ready for Hillary! to shuffle off already.