"What REALLY Happened: This Is Way Bigger Than Just Hillary and Trump and Russia" [View all]

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"What REALLY Happened: This Is Way Bigger Than Just Hillary and Trump and Russia"
"Hillary Clinton’s book What Happened is triggering a lot of Pavlovian responses, including Hillary Rage, the Bernie Bro reflex, the media’s Clinton Derangement Syndrome etc. etc. Diesirae has a diary about how Hillary has never been allowed to speak her mind, but has always been subject to a different set of rules. It’s not merely the constant and deliberate demonization coming from the right, it’s also wrapped up with a fair amount of misogyny and other things from all sides. (To hear Hillary in her own words, there’s an interview Jane Pauley did with her on CBS Sunday Morning.)

Regardless of that, it’s critically important to understand what DID happen. This is about more than Hillary Clinton.

Any Democratic candidate would and will find themselves facing a long running campaign that’s been systematically stacking the deck for decades. That back story is not getting the attention it demands, which is only natural considering the problems of the moment: North Korea, Hurricanes, Repeal & Replace, etc. etc. The Trump presidency may be a national disaster that will take years — if ever — to recover from (if the nation does...) BUT… it didn’t happen overnight or even in the course of one campaign.

A well-qualified candidate with plenty of funding won the popular vote by a margin of nearly 3 million — yet a morally degenerate con man not only ended up in the White House, he arrived with a Congress now under one party control, and a judiciary being skewed to perpetuate that situation. Poll after poll shows a majority of Americans reject the policies Republicans are pushing; reality keeps showing that their policies don’t work to do what they promise — yet they keep getting elected. That’s the story that needs to be followed up. We are well and truly screwed if we don’t and do not respond effectively."
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/9/11/1697195/-What-REALLY-Happened-This-Is-Way-Bigger-Than-Just-Hillary-and-Trump-and-Russia

Interesting read, much more at link.