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.”
*sniff*
Trump has a “yuuuge” ego, but it gives him the courage to tackle problems and find solutions to them, and then relish in the sense of accomplishment.
Hillary’s narcissism only allows her to tackle those who have the audacity to refuse to worship her, and relish in the acts of tearing them down.
Ditto
That graphic is amazing.
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This wench has thought of every angle to keep these election results alive. Stop already!
Delusional!!!
Hillary should feel terrible responsibility for being a criminal grifter, and for raising Web’s daughter to be same.
Classic narcissist but probably higher grade up to sociopath or psychopath level...keep talking you gutter puke narc devil. Vengeance is mine says the Lord, I will repay.....
“”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””
Mrs. Clinton is describing herself!
“”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.””
My gosh - I should have waited to post - does she not realize that in her blabbering she has given away all her secrets? Talk about projection! Incredible.
It is always about her! Me Me Me!
Clucking hen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zra3SOgAsyg
She feels? a “terrible responsibily”
Although, everyone in the universe is responsible for her loss...except her.
Soulless is a very good description for that be-yotch.
Her “remorse?” She’s a pathological lying narcissist who cheats and scams people.
Many people staked their entire collective soul on the fact that she would be president. And she lost. And she owes them all Big Time.
And what about all those people who "donated" large sums of money because she promised them complete access to the Oval Office?
Yeah, she owes a lot of people cuz she didn't win.
Is she planning on paying all these people back?
There’s a world of difference between psychosocial narcissism and self-confidence or arrogance. True clinical narcissism is a mental illness, and those who have it objectify others, lack compassion and remorse, have delusions of grandeur, can never admit mistakes or fault, have a constant need to be the center of attention, and are generally tone deaf to the needs of others.
Trump has compassion, and has a life beyond his public life. It wouldn’t have ‘devastated’ him if he hadn’t won the election. The left love to label him a narcissist, but it’s ironic - as he isn’t, and their poster child, Hillary, is.
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