Society has created the unrealistic idea that a president should be a “magical leader” who never makes mistakes. In practice, no such magical leaders exist, but the expectation that presidents should be magical means that we turn against potential leaders when we discover that they, like all people before them, aren’t magical. Her cautious approach to the media allows opponents to define her by caricature, While Hillary’s cautious approach may have avoided “gaffes,” it has also made it hard for her to define herself and allowed her opponents to define her by caricature. No magical leaders actually exist. They just...