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On Monday, a woman who was never elected to the presidency, Hillary Clinton, spoke to a crowd in India. There, she laid out the reason she lost:
those stupid, stupid poor people.
Yes, Hillary was a blue collar candidate, all right.
Here's what she said:
There's all that red in the middle, where Trump won. Now, I win the coasts, I win Illinois, Minnesota, places like that. But what the map doesn't show you is that I won the places that represent two-thirds of America's gross domestic product. So I won the places that are optimistic, diverse, dynamic, moving forward, and his whole campaign, Make America Great Again, was looking backwards. "You don't like black people getting rights, you don't like women getting jobs, you don't want to see that Indian-American succeeding more than you are, whatever your problem is, I'm going to solve it."
Clearly, this is the way that Democrats will win back the middle of the country:
by calling them racist rubes who despise immigrants and still have outhouses.It never occurred to Clinton that
perhaps she lost because she scorned those people; it never occurred to Clinton that perhaps those people scorned her not because her agenda was sophisticated, but because her hatred of them was so basic to her nature. Mitt Romney was hurt in 2012 because he suggested that 47% of the public didn't pay taxes, and so couldn't hear his call for tax decreases; Hillary lost because she thinks people who live outside big cities are idiots and deplorables.
It's also worth thinking about Hillary's take on wealth here. Is she advocating for an income-based voting system? If so, that gives the lie to the idea that Democrats are the party of the poor -
and if Democrats actively alienate those who earn less, they'll be alienating a core constituency, by the numbers. Those of low income already show up less often to the polls. They're certainly not going to show up to vote for Hillary Clinton or anyone like her.Hilariously, Democrats seem more interested in doubling down on intersectional politics than in appealing to the rural voters they've lost. That opens the door to Trump's re-election. But with each passing day, Hillary shows why she never became president - and why she never should have.
Comment: More on Hillary's India talk from the Daily Wire:
'FEMINIST' CLINTON: Women Voted For Donald Trump Because Their Husbands Told Them To.
By Emily Zanotti March 12, 2018
Hillary took part in the India Today Conclave over the weekend and really spilled her guts.
Former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton let loose in a conversation with the India Today Conclave over the weekend, calling Trump voters and residents of heartland states 'backwards," telling the audience that Americans "didn't like black people getting rights," and "didn't like women," and claiming that white women only voted for Trump because they were told to do so by their husbands.
Clinton waited until she was well overseas to give the shocking speech, rehashing some of her greatest hits into a single, televised rant, delivered largely to an audience of Indians gathered for the innovation conference.
Asked about the 52% of white women who voted for Donald Trump in the presidential election despite being faced with the possibility of having the first woman president in American history, Clinton did not concede that women could have voted based on their own political preferences. Rather, the failed Democratic candidate claimed that white women were under the spell of their husbands, fathers, and sons, who forced them to pull the lever for Donald Trump.
"We do not do well with white men and we don't do well with married, white women," Clinton told the audience about the Democratic Party. "And part of that is an identification with the Republican Party, and a sort of ongoing pressure to vote the way that your husband, your boss, your son, whoever, believes you should."
Yep. That's right. A majority of white women in America are merely the pawns of their male betters, the willing tools of a massive Patriarchal conspiracy that sought to keep Clinton out of the White House because she happened to be a woman.
That's not all though. Clinton went on to claim that then-FBI director James Comey, now a liberal hero, destroyed her "momentum," and "decreased my vote" when he suddenly re-opened an investigation into her mishandling of classified information just days before the November election.
At some point, Clinton's habit of excusing her campaign performance simply becomes pathological. She no longer accepts any rational explanation for her loss that is at odds with her own carefully curated reality, and she'll likely carry these same explanations with her to her deathbed, always believing that America was too backwards, to brutish, and too misogynistic to see the paradise she promised.
Wow Hillary. Alienating working class Americans and women all in the same speech. That's got to be a new record. It's amazing that she's so blinded by her bitterness at losing the election that she's willing to throw the majority of Americans under the bus in order to justify it. If she actually has aspirations of running again, she's off to a really terrible start.
Comment: More on Hillary's India talk from the Daily Wire: Wow Hillary. Alienating working class Americans and women all in the same speech. That's got to be a new record. It's amazing that she's so blinded by her bitterness at losing the election that she's willing to throw the majority of Americans under the bus in order to justify it. If she actually has aspirations of running again, she's off to a really terrible start.