Hence the tears on the floor, which should have been ameliorated by a soothing, hold your head high speech from the candidate herself. Instead a greasy functionary comes out and tells them all to go home. The word "anticlimax" doesn't even begin to cover it.
Hillary In The Bunker. Yeah, that sounds about right - it's so perfectly in character and what has reported by rogue staffers appalled at their treatment as well as her public behavior toward Secret Service and assigned Marines. Anyone can get gruff when she or he is having a bad day, but this is far more than that, it appears to be the systematic behavior of a very disturbed individual subject to uncontrollable rage. What we have here isn't Hitler, it's Ivan the Terrible.
It was not a glass ceiling but a Titanic. So many were so grief-stricken in both cases.