Posted on 12/23/2016 1:42:11 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Hillary Clinton spent much of last summer arguing that Ronald Reagan would never vote for Donald Trump. At the Democratic National Convention, a series of speakers — including Barack Obama — argued that the patron saint of the conservative movement would recoil at Trump’s authoritarian ethos. At a September press conference, the Democratic nominee suggested that the Gipper would be incensed to see the Republican nominee praise Vladimir Putin while disparaging the American president. One of her super-PACs’ final campaign ads cast Reagan’s ghost as a Clinton surrogate.
The point of all this nostalgia for the man who killed off the New Deal consensus was to isolate the Republican nominee from his party’s upscale wing — and, thus, to engineer a landslide, bipartisan rebuke of the demagogue.
This same strategic logic shaped Clinton’s “alt-right” speech, which cast Trump as the champion of a reactionary online movement that defined itself in opposition to the mainstream conservatism. By the end of that address, Clinton had contrasted the hatefulness of Trump’s meme-savvy minions with the principled tolerance of such statesman as Bob Dole, George W. Bush, John McCain, and House Speaker Paul Ryan.
At the time, it wasn’t hard to make a case for this gambit. After the DNC, polls showed Clinton with a solid grasp on the Democratic base and a comfortable lead in the states she’d need to win on November 8. Why not try to expand her coalition across the aisle, by assuring suburban Republicans that the vulgarian who’d commandeered their party wasn’t really one of them?
But that question was never as rhetorical as the Clinton campaign may have hoped. There was always a risk that in distancing Trump from the GOP, she would be doing him a service....
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Shhhhhh!
I’ve heard every excuse imaginable as to why Hitlery lost the election except the correct one: SHE WAS A LIFELONG CRIMINAL and every thinking person saw through the public persona.
lol!
‘HRC had to be one of the worst candidates in American political history, and the one with the most bad baggage, too”
She made Pat Paulsen look good.
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Donald “Charles Martel” Trump.
Hell isn’t Methodist?
And she also didn’t call his supporters “racist” enough times.
definitely Pat Paulsen was FAR better than HRC!
so would have been Caligula (crazy) or Nero (tretcherous) or Al Capone (at least honest about stealing) , for that matter
HilLIARy had to be the worst candidate with the worst political baggage!
And we’ll get to witness it again if she tries this again in 2020.
Do you really think she will? If she does.....well, I just don’t know what to say to that..........sheesh!
“the D’s could have won, even after 8 years of Obama undermining Americans and our economy and country,had they ran a decent candidate who did not show such obvious contempt for American people...”
I seriously doubt that. Every rat in the democrat leadership is as repulsive as Hitlery.
So how are you able to micromanage your safe space thoughts about the election? Donald Trump lost his home state by the largest margin in history—a loser. So take that and stuff it.
To Cankles:
You sir.... are NO Ronald Reagan.
Hillary spent all her time defining Trump, when she should have been defining herself. Her problem was the only true story of her was littered with corruption, theft, and lies.
I like it. Charles Martel for America!
What Hillary really shouldn’t’ve done is run.
Donald “Comes with Righteous Orange Thunder” Trump.
(8^O
Isn't it time to MoveOn.com?
Hillary Clinton Really Shouldn’t Have Told Voters That Trump
Wasn’t a Normal Republican
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Yep Clinton helped us out this time. The voters this time rejected both the “Normal” Republican and Democrat.
How about them apples........
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