• Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    Hillary definitely isn’t the person who needs to be delivering this message, but the message resounds.

    Her being right about the Trump cult doesn’t make her any less of a milquetoast Democrat who only started caring about things like gay marriage when public opinion supported it. Any politician who can’t stand by values and instead changes tack based on public opinion is a shitheel.

    She was right about them being Deplorables and she is right about their isolation and loneliness being part of why they’re able to be weaponized.

    That doesn’t make her any less of the person whose campaign strategy was to promote Donald Trump during the primaries, and then failed to do on-the-ground rallies in swing states that she lost electorally. She actually won the popular election, by quite a bit. She was pretty much one of the few people who could have lost to Trump. Jeb Bush was also running the same year, and after two Bushes and one Clinton presidencies, I think the Democratic party really underestimated people’s dislike of political dynasties.

    Anyway, right message, wrong person to be delivering it because her fucking hubris and thinking that Trump was gonna be easy to beat is part of what got us in this stupid fucking festering mess.