New Book: Hillary Is Even More Awful Than You Thought

From Hot Air, an excerpt of an upcoming book previewed in The Hill called Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign.

The blame belonged to her campaign team, she believed, for failing to hone her message, energize important constituencies and take care of business in getting voters to the polls. And now, Jake Sullivan, her de facto chief strategist, was giving her lip about the last answer she'd delivered in the prep session.

"That's not very good," Sullivan corrected.

"Really?" Hillary snapped back.

The room fell silent.

"Why don’t you do it?"

The comment was pointed and sarcastic, but she meant it. So for the next 30 minutes, there he was, pretending to be Hillary while she critiqued his performance.

Every time the Yale lawyer and former high school debate champ opened his mouth, Hillary cut him off. "That isn’t very good," she’d say. "You can do better." Then she'd hammer him with a Bernie line.

What a peach.

When NeverTrump jumped the shark, continuing their (perfectly acceptable) primary opposition to Trump into general election season, most of them passive-aggressively supporting Clinton while claiming they were doing no such thing, one flaw of Trump they'd frequently point to was his characterological defects, his inability to take criticism, his anger, his autocratic impulses, and so on.

All of which was worth a worry or two -- but his opponent was Hillary Clinton, a walking (or stumbling) personality disorder.

But it was "binary thinking" to point that out, or to treat the election as if it were a "binary choice" between one flawed candidate who promised to nominate conservative judges and another flawed candidate who vowed to nominate progressive judges.

posted by Ace at 01:39 PM

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