Hillary Clinton has shared for the first time what would have been her presidential victory speech.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Hillary Clinton has shared for the first time what would have been her 2016 presidential victory speech. Listen here.

Link to tweet

[Budi]

1. 💙

Hide your heads in shame, what's been laid down on this nation. Every one of you.

Starts at the top.

Link to tweet

[Hortensis]

2. Wow, Feb 1, 2020, with President tRump sworn in on Jan 20.

The President WE elected, Hillary Clinton, and what should have been:

"My fellow Americans, today you've sent a message to the whole world," Clinton says. "Our values endure, our democracy stands strong and our motto remains 'E pluribus unum.' Out of many, one. We will not be defined only by our differences. We will not be an us vs. them country. The American dream is big enough for everyone." ...

Forward to 2022, and then 2024. If we don't stand as one and commit to win those, the days when people can come here to share our concerns and differences without fear, perhaps at all, will be over.

[moose65]

9. Say what??

This video is from a 2020 campaign rally, right? Trump was sworn in as president on Jan. 20, 2017.

[Hortensis]

10. Whoops, right. But this was three years into tRump's extremely

dangerous and destructive term. Isn't it even worse? 3 years into this enormous, unfolding tragedy and beginning another, with an appalling chance of the same people getting him reelected?

How much worse would it have to be for those who would boo her to regret what should have been? For the dreadful consequences of 2016 to have changed them?

Perhaps the question should be for them to be able to understand what should have been? The same appalled wonder our Republican neighbors evoke.

“Fundamentally, this election challenged us to decide what it means to be an American in the 21st century. And by reaching for unity, decency and what President Lincoln called ‘the better angels of our nature’, we met that challenge.”

If only. Next time?

[CTyankee]

3. I didn't realize what was going to happen. I was as sure as she was that she'd win.

Now this feels like it was eons ago. When I first read the words "President Donald Trump" I felt like I was in another universe.

[Budi]

4. The next morning as her loss was announced, I dug out my passport & began searching for a country to

...move to.
The fear of Trump was THAT strong.
It was real.
I thought if I secure a home outside the US, I can bring my family & grandkids there asap.

The Fight was over & Flight was in high gear that morning.

🙁

[CTyankee]

5. I remember DU folk who were ready to move to Canada or Japan or anywhere else...

I was hopeful that Trump wasn't really serious about the stuff he said on the campaign. But he was.

It was worse than my biggest nightmare.

[Budi]

6. She still won the people's vote, with all the multi-pronged artillery aimed at her from all directio

And THAT loss of the electorate vote in the end was designed by those same forces who gave us Bush as well.
Only this time they were out in numbers, with Media solidly behind them, intending to burn it all down. Just as they declared early on.

We sat & watched it all.
It was clear who the multi-pronged artillery was coming from.

And here we are. Hanging on to the hope & promise of Democrat Joe Biden to patch together what was once a functioning nation.

The 'reasons' they all gave for their presence, was the tell.
None were there on the side of Democracy.

Except Hillary Clinton.
But we always knew that.
💙👍

[triron]

8. Trump committed treason to win the presidency. Very few would admit that but that's what it was.

[Hortensis]

11. "It was the strong shadow that accompanied the bright light of democracy.

People were free to abuse their freedoms."

From Hillary Clinton's and Louise Penny's novel "State of Terror, commenting on how their fictional tRumpish character was elevated to the presidency by foreign states, profiteers, and citizens who abuse their freedoms.