...”I suspect that Politico’s concept of Clintonism is grossly divorced from the reality of it.”...
Oh, Yes: The Jennifer Flowers story along with what was known about the Arkansas “mafia” would have done Bill Clinton’s candidacy in the first time, if third party candidate, Ross Perot, had stayed out of it. I think the voter turnout was in the 20-something percentage. Mr. Perot owns much of the blame for the decline of our nation since then, especially regarding the rise of corruption and the moral decline. Perot handed that election to Clinton.
There is no doubt that Perot handed that election to Clintigula.
Another problem was that George Bush was a globalist New World Order type. Which the public didn’t want then, and doesn’t want now. NAFTA was pushed on Clinton, who IIRC didn’t really want it, but went along anyway. And once in when whole hog.
Since 1988 we have been governed by a series of fools who were beholden to some other ideology that did not put America first. With Bush it was the NWO, with Clinton it was themselves, Bush 2 back to the NWO, and Obozo, himself and islam first.
America needs Trump, may he do right by her.