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Authoritarian arrogance and the end of the ‘reality-based community’
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Just another rancid apple from the basket of deplorables. Hillary was right.
Bernie was right.
Hillary was an awful candidate and everyone who nominated her should feel blame for why trump won in 2016.
Sorry, no. 2016 was the Before Times, until the “grab them by the pussy” tape came out and nothing came of it.
That would have been a political career ending coffin nail at any other time. We’ve been in the upside down ever since.
... says anyone not focused on Hillary's career before the presidency.
Inside Team Clinton’s year-long struggle to find a strategy against the opponent they were most eager to face.
Yeah, she was a real one-woman brain trust.
Still, for all the hand-wringing from the bothsidering bullshit artists and the clutching of the Civility Pearls for her saying that - she was right.
Hillary: "I'm going to dig my own grave. Get ready for me to fumble the bag so hard it plunges the country into a new Dark Age."
Liberal Democrats: "Yas Queen."
I don't think anyone (at least not here and definitely not me) is yas queen'ing Hillary. I have a lot of reasons to fault her for a great many things, but when people were calling for their fainting couches because she spoke frankly about the Confederates, I just had to laugh. I grew up around a metric shit-ton of deplorables.
I mean, you still see so-called centrists and alleged leftists going hysterical over the term deplorables. Of course the wingnut snowflakes pretended to be so offended, too, just like when Obama made his "bitter clingers" comment. The way the usual suspects queened out over Obama's statement was even funnier to me, since he was talking about the very state I grew up in and he was absolutely correct about that.
Do I? That's not the critique of the campaign I've seen leftists fixate on. Meanwhile, centrists still venerate and emulate her. Hell, the Harris campaign poached heavily from Hillary's 2016 team and adopted much of her "bring on board as many 'moderate Republicans' as you can" strategy.
There's this idea that people who disagree with you politically are sub-human. And then there's this consequential idea that "we need to win the sub-human voters" whenever you're down in the polls. The end result of these combined theories of politics is a liberal party that constantly flirts with fascism under the table, while denouncing it from the front-page.
Consequently, you have people in your party viewing you as a corrupt and compromised candidate while people in the opposition party see you as a huckster and your base as suckers you've gulled into support. This is, incidentally, how Republicans saw their own liberal candidates in 2016. And its a fact Hillary leveraged to spoil Bush and Kasich via media back channels.
What she didn't consider was the appeal of open and honest fascism when stacked up against two-faced neoliberal pandering. It cost her the race in 2016. And it cost her heir apparent the race eight years later.