Hillary Clinton’s long, tortured, road ahead
Hillary Clinton’s second inevitable triumphal march to the Democratic nomination is even more depressing than her first one.
She is barely crawling her way to the convention, being bested in primary after primary, by one of the most unlikely, ungainly, unhip and unscripted candidates in a presidential election ever: the awesome socialist septuagenarian Bernie Sanders.
He just won Indiana and West Virginia. He’s heading to a win in Oregon. Unthinkably, it is said he may win California. None of this was supposed to be.
He racks up majorities — she issues another alibi for why she lost. He stirs their hearts — she runs through another of her static, bloodless “look at the math” updates that wearies even that few who really want her to win.
All the fire, all the belief, all the enthusiasm, all — curiously — the novelty and freshness is with white-haired Bernie.
The Democrats are playing against the laws of cause and effect. Hillary’s campaign is dead, and she’s winning. Bernie’s is alive, and he’s losing. How can such things be? Should she actually win the nomination, as all the journalists and pundits keep telling us she will and must, the Democratic party will have said “No!” to enthusiasm, inspiration and excitement. They will have said no to Bernie’s peoples’ campaign, and re-embraced the cynical, entitled, passionless politics of the Clinton machine.
This would be a curious strategy even in normal times. Up against Trump the Implacable it is wildly out of tune. If she is still just barely winning, what hope can she really have when He Who Knows No Boundaries Whatsoever steps up to work his inexplicable magic?
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