By Susan Bordo
A play-by-play of the political forces and media tradition that vilified and eventually introduced down Hillary Clinton in the course of her 2016 Presidential campaign
The Destruction of Hillary Clinton is a solution to the query many were asking: How did an awfully well-qualified, skilled, and renowned candidate—whose victory may were as ancient as Barack Obama's—come to be noticeable as a device of the institution, a protracted liar, and a talentless politician?
during this masterful narrative of the 2016 crusade yr and the occasions that led as much as it, Susan Bordo unpacks the rights' attack on Clinton and her attractiveness, the way in which the left provoked suspicion and indifference one of the formative years vote, and the media's exceptional influence.
pressing, insightful, and engrossing, The Destruction of Hillary Clinton is a vital consultant to realizing the main debatable presidential election in American historical past.
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Stitching that record together, ultimately, I discovered an answer—complex, multidimensional, and partaking of more outright political sabotage than I had expected—to the question that still keeps me up some nights, and that this book attempts to address. How could such an extraordinarily well-qualified, experienced, admired, accomplished candidate, whose victory seemed assured and would have been as unprecedented as that of Barack Obama’s, come to be seen as a tool of the establishment, a chronic liar, and a talentless politician?
November 28, 2016: Trump claims, with no evidence, that “millions of people” voted illegally. January 20, 2017: Trump is inaugurated president of the United States. January 21, 2017: The Women’s March on Washington and related protests around the world demonstrate peacefully for racial and gender equality, affordable healthcare, reproductive rights, and voting rights, generating record-breaking crowds. Preface This book is hard to write, as it requires revisiting events that caused me pain, anger, and frustration.
Hillary, of course, was not allowed the same license to be bushy and unmanicured. Or grumpy. Even after she lost the election, she was expected to concede “graciously,” and called a “sore loser” when she—justly—acknowledged Comey’s interference. Sanders, on the other hand, looked like he was about to punch someone at the Democratic convention when Clinton officially got the nomination, and I never heard the word “ungracious” uttered by a single commentator. Notions of acceptable public behavior, for men as well as women, have also changed dramatically over the years, and vary depending on the culturally defined personae of the candidates.