How Hillary Clinton Embodies the Democrats' Unfair but Very Real Problem

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‘WHAT HAPPENED’

How Hillary Clinton Embodies the Democrats’ Unfair but Very Real Problem
Clinton, whose new book is out today, talked incessantly about people’s struggles but still was easy to caricature as remote. This is the puzzle the Democrats need to solve.


MICHAEL TOMASKY
09.12.17 1:00 AM ET

So Hillary Clinton’s book is coming out today, which means that starting today—actually, it started last week when some excerpts leaked—we’re going to be treated to a battalion of experts explaining why, once again, she’s Doing It Wrong.

Because that’s how it goes. Throughout her time in the public eye, going back to 1992, whether she was actually doing it wrong or not, the mainstream press has generally decided that she was Doing It Wrong. There is no more reason to think this will change than there is to think that the right-media will ever stop trying to get her indicted for something, which, yes, is still going on and will be going on until the day she dies and possibly after.

This column isn’t about all that. I will read the book, and I hope it’s more interesting than her previous two. If she throws a few punches here, on literary grounds if nothing else, it’s fine by me.

What I want to do here is take the occasion of this book’s publication to discuss a problem the Democrats face and that Clinton represented and embodied, and that in my experience a lot of liberals have trouble acknowledging and talking about. The Democrats do have a huge problem—largely an unfair one, but real and huge nonetheless—with how they present themselves to the middle and working classes.

Since Clinton lost, critics have loved saying that she didn’t talk enough about the economic concerns of regular people, and that’s why she lost.

Nonsense. That’s about all she talked about. Her words may not have been just the right words. The poetry may have been on the wooden side. She may have done the talking in some of the wrong places—Philadelphia instead of Oshkosh or whatever. But she talked endlessly about all that.

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[BeyondGeography]

1. Good read...The Amy McGrath ad he refers to

[Girard442]

2. How about we mention the elephant in the room?

The media doesn't say nice things about Democrats because the people who write the paychecks don't want Democrats to win. If Hillary had walked on water, the headline would be, "Hillary Puts Her Dirty Feet in Our Children's Drinking Water."

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3. I think all of this post game analysis is bullshit

The deplorable hate democrats and liberals. They have been brainwashed into that hated for decades now they didn't care who was running they just wanted to beat the "libtards".

They think we are stupid and weak. They think we "hate America" and they think that we hate white people especially white men. I have many relatives in "red state America" and they think I'm a homosexual ( because I am unmarried ) or possibly a child molester ( I had a 17 year old niece come live with me to finish high school and start college because her hometown was full of meth addicts and losers - a full 70% of her high school class in her hometown didn't expect to go to college )

These are my SISTER and my other nieces and nephew and their spouses who think these things about me, and all because I have a very good job and live in California .

It is an unreasoning hatred of all things liberal of big D democratic. They hated Obama. They really hate the Clintons. But mostly they blame their lot in life on us.

We could have run Gandhi and they would have hated him. We could have run LBJ again and they would have hated him. I suspect that if their savior Jesus came back to earth and performed miracle after miracle and declared himself to be a democrat that they would claim it's all "fake news". They are brainwashed and hopeless

They are, in fact, deplorable people.

[Skittles]

4. excellent analysis

yes indeed

(and don't even get me started on repukes who confuse homosexuality with pedophilia)