Vanity Fair joins in the effort to silence the Democratic base

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80. We will not be obliging your desire to see us driven from public space

We will not be ceding the party to those who resent it and its voters. Hillary has has said in no uncertain terms that she will not run again. Instead she has formed a PAC to support Democrats and to organize her supporters around that mission. You don't have to approve or take part in those efforts to elect Democrats, but neither I nor Hillary will be seeking your permission to leave the house.

Politicians who have never succeeded in earning a fraction of the votes she has have decided they should be able to determine the future off a party. Unlike them, Hillary isn't seeking to determine the future if the party but merely to support those who seek to carry it forward.

I take efforts to banish Hillary as an attack on me and my rights as a citizen. Clinton per se matters far less than the voters she represents, and it is we who are the targets of such efforts.

You do not determine who represents me, anymore than I determine who represents you. Moreover, the efforts to silence Hillary are part of the same socio-political culture that seeks to silence Warren and Harris. (If you ever looked at Warren's poll numbers, you would know your claims about her having less baggage are false. She too suffers from the crime of being female). Like them, Hillary persists, as we persist.

All you need do to avoid the horror of being exposed to the Democrat who has won more votes than any except Obama and more than the current occupant of the White House is refrain from watching the ONE media interview she has given in seven months. That should not be difficult. What is less easily achieved is silencing those who supported her or undermining our future votes.