Posted on 10/08/2017 5:47:58 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The former Secretary of State and Democratic hopeful discussed how difficult it was for her to come to terms with losing to political wildcard Trump and said it was not what she expected.
“I thought I’d be a damn good president, I did not think I was going to lose,” she said in an interview with The Sunday Times Magazine.
Mrs Clinton describe her loss as “deeply troubling” and said is left her feeling a “sense of real loss for our country, that we elected someone who knows so little, cares even less and is just seeking the applause of the masses”.
“I feel a terrible sense of responsibility for not having figured out how to defeat this person,” she said. “There must have been a way and I didn't find it."
But she also said that, despite shortcomings in her campaign, they were “not the full story” as to why she ultimately lost.
She told interviewer Christina Lamb that Trump ran a campaign rife with “sexism and misogyny” and he himself “advocated violence [and] said all kinds of terrible things”.
"Trump was running a reality-TV campaign filled with personal attacks, giving people a great show,” she said.
"It was a combination of playing on the fears of people who are worried about losing out in the future by fuelling sexism, racism and anti-immigrant feelings.”
And she said the UK Brexit vote should have rung alarm bells for her as the same people were backing Trump’s campaign – namely former Ukip leader Nigel Farage.
“They thought, 'Hey, we've got this figured out, just tell a really horrible lie over and over again, keep people off balance and make them think that this will, if not make their lives better, make them feel better',” she said.
“They voted against modern Britain and the EU, believing that somehow this would be good for their small village. The same thing played out in my race, but I didn't think we were so vulnerable. But it turned out we were wrong.
“[Farage] came to the US to campaign for Trump and spent half of his remarks insulting me in a very personal way and talking about Trump as the alpha male, the silver-backed gorilla. Think of those images and what that says about what's acceptable and what's not."
Mrs Clinton said she also feels the Trump administration is now seeking to undermine much of her work as secretary of state under the Obama administration – specifically in building international relations.
“It’s not about me,” she said. “It’s about the message that sends to the world and what his priorities are, what he values and what he doesn’t.”
The former First Lady, who published her account on the election in a book titled ‘What Happened’, said she turned to writing as a method of understanding her experience.
She said the writing process helped, as well as having more time to spend with her grandchildren, but that she was still living the experience “every day”.
A friend gave me a little sign that says ‘I do yoga, I meditate and I still want to kick somebody’,” she said.
“I know that feeling.”
Had she finished Alinsky's course, perhaps she would have noted how he warned against utilizing her favorite campaign tactic of rejecting a significantly large, prideful and productive population of America's citizens. Remember, as you read the following words from Alinsky, that Hillary described Trump's millions of supporters as deplorables and unredeemable.
Alinsky: Many of the lower middle class are members of labor unions, churches, bowling clubs, fraternal, service, and nationality organizations. They are organizations and people that must be worked with as one would work with any other part of our population--with respect, understanding, and sympathy.
To reject them is to lose them by default. They will not shrivel and disappear. You can't switch channels and get rid of them. This is what you have been doing in your radicalized dream world but they are here and will be.
Hillary, you failed even Alinsky's course!
You haven't heard?
The latest industry is the "Personal Destruction" Industry, it's called their service fee... ' PACs and Super Pacs all vying to see which can destroy the most people, spread the fakest news, influence the most voters, destroy the most lives.
It's the age of the incompetent...
And a handful of progressives are making tens of million$ in the business of destroying the country.
You make a very valid point.
In the future, when referring to the fat, ugly, criminal cow, I will always add, "...and failed '16 presidential candidate Hillary Rotten Clinton..."
I cannot remember, once, hearing Trump utter a word against immigrants--- arrogant invaders? sure, lots same as many of us; genuine immigrants? Nary a peep!
We dodged a bullet during the election, that’s for certain. She is a pathological narcissist who would have turned this country into a despotic autocracy.
If she wants to kick Bubba every day, or several times a day, I will cheer her on.
LOL, yes!
She outspent President Trump 2-1. Half of President Trump’s funds were his own, with the majority of the rest being small donations like mine. Hillary didn’t use any of her own funds and a large amount of her funds came from Harvey Weinstein fundraisers. She deserved to lose.
One thing, being a businessman, President Trump knew how to use his campaign funds wisely. Hillary’s carpet bombing approach failed miserably.
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