When This Blows Over

"Maybe she is an idea, a world-historical
heroine, light itself,"
• Virginia Heffernan, on Hillary Clinton
Nothing this nutty has been said by any of Trump's media
fanboys.
"Hillary is Athena," Heffernan continued, adding that "Hillary did
everything right in this campaign… She cannot be faulted,
criticized, or analyzed for even one more second."
That's a key cry of the Cult of Hillary (as it is among followers of
L. Ron Hubbard or devotees of Christ): our gal is beyond
criticism, beyond the sober and technical analysis of mere
humans.
I understand being upset and angry at your candidate's loss, but
this is something different; this is what happens, not when a
politician does badly, but when your savior, your Athena, "light
itself," is extinguished. The grief is understandable only in the
context of the apocalyptic faith they had put in Hillary. Not since
Princess Diana kicked the bucket can I remember such a strange,
misplaced belief in one woman, and such a weird, post-modern
response to someone's demise (and Clinton isn't even dead! She
just lost!).