Yes! Thank you for this. I would just add that Hillary won the popular vote. She wasn’t perfect but no candidate is. We’ll never know for sure but Comey was probably the nail in her coffin. Swing voters lost her the electoral college. I love The Bulwark but they really need to include this context more instead of crapping all over the dems for her candidacy over and over again.
And please don’t gaslight me by saying that sexism wasn’t, and isn’t, a factor or Hillary. Nothing riles up the frothing masses like a smart, accomplished, fearless woman, confidently and unashamedly doing her thing.
Somewhat ironically, I have always predicted that the first female president will be a Republican. Misogyny can be overcome if enough vitriol and hate emanates from the candidate herself, whoever she may be. Republicans have no use for a wise, thoughtful, compassionate female leader; that’s exactly what they DON’T want.
Also see the focus groups of trump / republican voters who very succinctly told Sarah that they wouldn’t even vote for a republican woman because they don’t believe they can do the job like a man can.
Yes! Thank you for this. I would just add that Hillary won the popular vote. She wasn’t perfect but no candidate is. We’ll never know for sure but Comey was probably the nail in her coffin. Swing voters lost her the electoral college. I love The Bulwark but they really need to include this context more instead of crapping all over the dems for her candidacy over and over again.
Can we agitate for a, “Hillary wasn’t always right, but DEPLORABLE’S was....” T-shirt on the BULWARK website??
This!
And please don’t gaslight me by saying that sexism wasn’t, and isn’t, a factor or Hillary. Nothing riles up the frothing masses like a smart, accomplished, fearless woman, confidently and unashamedly doing her thing.
Somewhat ironically, I have always predicted that the first female president will be a Republican. Misogyny can be overcome if enough vitriol and hate emanates from the candidate herself, whoever she may be. Republicans have no use for a wise, thoughtful, compassionate female leader; that’s exactly what they DON’T want.
Someone truly awful. Like Kari “Paws on Tim” Lake.
but MTG for POTUS has a certain ring to it....
Ohh how I wish you were wrong. How I wish... 😏
I wish I was wrong too . . . And maybe I am!
And don’t let all the pious, god fearing religious men off the hook either, All men are created equal. Just ask Mr. Johnson.
🎯 indeed plus see: Harris, Kamala
Also see the focus groups of trump / republican voters who very succinctly told Sarah that they wouldn’t even vote for a republican woman because they don’t believe they can do the job like a man can.