When This Blows Over

She lost because of “voter suppression” and “unaccountable money
flowing in against me.” She lost because the Democratic National
Committee didn’t help her. “I inherit nothing from the Democratic
Party. I mean it was bankrupt. . . . Its data was mediocre to poor,
nonexistent, wrong. I had to inject money into it.”
She lost because FBI Director James Comey told Congress the
investigation regarding her email server had been reopened. “So for
whatever reason . . . and I can’t look inside the guy’s mind, you know,
he dumps that on me on Oct. 28, and I immediately start falling.”
She lost because she was “swimming against a historic tide. It’s very
difficult historically to succeed a two-term president of your own
party.” She lost because she was “the victim of a very broad
assumption that I was going to win.” She lost because the news media
ignored her policy positions.
And then there was sexism. “It sort of bleeds into misogyny. And let’s
just be honest, you know, people who have . . . a set of expectations
about who should be president and what a president looks like, you
know, they’re going to be much more skeptical and critical of
somebody who doesn’t look like and talk like and sound like
everybody else who’s been president. And you know, President
Obama broke that racial barrier, but you know, he’s a very attractive,
good-looking man.”
Oh my goodness, how she thinks.