Why Hillary Lost: A Premature Obit
The blame game has already begun. Here’s where Democrats will point the finger if she loses.
by Howard Fineman, Jason Linkins, Lauren Weber
The Huffington Post
On the high, crenelated ramparts of Castle Clinton, a chill breeze is stirring ― a faint but gnawing sense that the White Walkers are coming, wearing “MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN” baseball caps on their skinless noggins.
If Donald Trump does sack the fortress, no one who lost the battle will want to admit it was Hillary Clinton’s fault. It will have had nothing to do with, say, “transparency” or calling bearded villagers “deplorables” or the Iraq War vote or the simple fact that middle-of-the-road Clintonism ran out of gas as a public philosophy.
No, other individuals, groups and forces will have to be blamed. In fact, they already are, pre-emptively. If Trump wins, we’re all going to be too busy moving to Canada to read the postmortems (or write them), so we offer them to you now:
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THE MEDIA Everyone’s piñata. Trump will blame the media. Gary Johnson will blame the media. Jill Stein will blame the media. (The media will ask, “Wait, which one was Jill Stein?”) |
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THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING Actually, they arrived long ago and got into her phone. |
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MILLENNIALS Ugh. F**cking idealists, right? |
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BERNIE SANDERS Remember when people worried that running unopposed in the primary would hurt Clinton? It’s going to be an endless wail about how Sanders should have withdrawn sooner. |
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BILL CLINTON You know how this will go down: Best campaigner of all time and he couldn’t close the sale. He lost his mojo. |
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SEXISTS Ugh. F**cking glass ceiling. |
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OBAMA PEOPLE If they could delete all of David Axelrod’s tweets, they would. |
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JAMES COMEY He might as well have indicted her for real, like he did in the court of public opinion. Extremely careless. |
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DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ AND THE DNC Her Soviet-style approach to boosting Clinton was something that Hillary’s campaign was happy to countenance. But the former DNC chairshould have left room for dissent rather than let it bottle up. |
Photos: Getty, Associated Press
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