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Hillary Clinton’s Celebrity Feminism Was a Failure
The New Republic ^ | November 10, 2016 | Sarah Jones

Posted on 11/12/2016 7:00:41 AM PST by Magnatron

Clinton’s campaign strategy, especially when it came to appealing to white women, indicates that she and her staffers didn’t quite grasp these dynamics. Her campaign employed a candy-colored brand of female empowerment seemingly based on the assumption that white women’s political priorities are influenced by the pop culture they consume. White working-class women weren’t going to vote for Clinton just because Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Lena Dunham, and Sheryl Sandberg were.

These celebrity overtures were out of step with the priorities and concerns of white working-class women. How can you “lean in,” as Sandberg implores working women to do, when it’ll cost you your minimum-wage job? And if you can’t afford HBO, how likely is it you even know who Lena Dunham is, much less care about her political opinions?

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: 2016dncstrategy; 2016issues; elitists; hillary2016; miserablefailure

1 posted on 11/12/2016 7:00:41 AM PST by Magnatron
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To: Magnatron

Hillary is a failure.


2 posted on 11/12/2016 7:04:09 AM PST by seawolf101 (Member LES DEPLORABLES)
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To: Magnatron

How could anyone take Hillary Clinton’s feminist leadership seriously, when she has lived with and enabled a man with at best a sexual addiction, at worst a sexual predator?


3 posted on 11/12/2016 7:06:27 AM PST by Toespi
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To: Magnatron

This white woman gave the big F U to her and her ilk...

What is amazing that the media kept saying that Trump had a woman problem. Trump was within 10 pts of Hillary with women.

Hillary had a massive problem with men. Trump I believe had a 25 pt lead with males... Yet they were silent about this divide.


4 posted on 11/12/2016 7:19:59 AM PST by HypatiaTaught (Live with Trump or Die with Hillary)
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To: Toespi

Furthermore, Hillary never accomplished a thing. The only reason anyone knows who she is is because she was First Lady.

If feminism is supposed to be about empowering women, and about women reaching for success, Hillary was the wrong woman to put forth as that ideal.


5 posted on 11/12/2016 7:22:11 AM PST by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: Toespi

It really blows me away that the Left has, with a straight face, branded Trump as a “sexual predator.” Have they never heard of Juanita Broaddrick? Kathleen Wiley? Paula Jones? Do they not remember Bill’s classy little cigar trick? It’s really amazing.


6 posted on 11/12/2016 7:22:28 AM PST by A_perfect_lady
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To: A_perfect_lady

Well, I’ve got something funny to tell you. This week some one told me with a completely straight face that she cannot believe that for the first time ever we will have a sexual predator in the White House.


7 posted on 11/12/2016 7:48:38 AM PST by BoomerBabe (Elated that Trump won)
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To: A_perfect_lady

I think those like Harry Reid, should be very careful throwing around the phrase, “Donald Trump is a sexual predator”. DJT is no GWB.


8 posted on 11/12/2016 7:50:23 AM PST by Toespi
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To: Magnatron

Hillary is a Feminist without the “fem.”


9 posted on 11/12/2016 8:07:59 AM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: exDemMom
“Furthermore, Hillary never accomplished a thing...”

My wife is a college educated professional CPA and Internal Auditor. She raised two outstanding children and takes care of me. She has no time for phony celebrity feminism and says the same thing about Hillary, she has never accomplished anything.

10 posted on 11/12/2016 8:28:10 AM PST by ops33 (SMSgt, USAF, Retired)
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To: Magnatron

If you got Hillary drunk enough she would claim that Mubarak, Ghadaffi, Assad and the Iran agreement were her greatest accomplishments. She had nothing that she could claim in public.


11 posted on 11/12/2016 8:32:29 AM PST by buffaloguy
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To: Magnatron
I thought that the celebrity involvement in her run was weird. These celebrities are the ones who feature large bowls of cocaine at house parties and orgies with starlets. Morally decrepit.

It seemed very much like she was running for class president in high school.

12 posted on 11/12/2016 8:40:28 AM PST by buffaloguy
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To: Magnatron
That maybe her vagina, isn't quite the draw she thinks it is...
13 posted on 11/12/2016 8:44:36 AM PST by Chode (You Owe Them Nothing - Not Respect, Not Loyalty, Not Obedience, NOTHING! ich bin ein Deplorable...)
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To: Magnatron

A buddy emailed me a pic. It’s a black and white still (a la Leave it to Beaver) from something long ago.

Anyway, someone added captions.

Young boy sitting at his desk his dad leaning on the corner listening to his son

YB: Dad, what to Hillary Clinton supporters believe?
Dad: They believe you need a vagina to enter the Presidency, but not to enter the women’s restroom.

YB: Oh. So they’re mentally ill, Dad?
Dad: Bat-shit crazy, Son.


14 posted on 11/12/2016 8:48:15 AM PST by AFreeBird (BEST. ELECTION. EVER!)
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To: BoomerBabe

That is truly astounding. And even before Bill Clinton, we had Kennedy. I mean, come on.


15 posted on 11/12/2016 10:06:16 AM PST by A_perfect_lady
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To: Magnatron

The bitch’s thought processes are stuck in the ‘90 when feminism was a big “thing”. It isn’t any more. And her ‘90s “glass ceiling” mantra. Give it up already. Has nobody ever heard of Margaret Thatcher, Golda Meir, Indira Gandhi?


16 posted on 11/12/2016 10:14:51 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (Rev. Jeffress re Trump: "He may not be like us, but he likes us.")
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