Jeffrey T. KuhnerPosted on 09/21/2016 4:59:15 AM PDT by taildragger
Going down: Hillary Clinton has already lost
Special to WorldTribune.com
Hillary Clinton is illegitimate. Whether or not she wins in November, Clinton has forfeited the political credibility and moral authority to be our next president.
Hillary may not know it, but she has already lost.
Polls now show Donald Trump is surging; Clinton is plummeting. A major reason for her decline is the utter derision and disdain she recently displayed against Middle America.
At a lavish $2,400-a-plate LGBT fundraiser, Hillary said that one-half of Trump’s supporters can be placed into a “basket of deplorables.” Clinton smeared them as “racists, sexists, xenophobic, homophobic and Islamophobic.” In other words, she called a quarter of the country bigoted scum, who — according to her — are “irredeemable.”
She also insulted the other half of Trump’s backers, saying they are driven by “economic anxiety.” According to Hillary, these voters are the “forgotten” ones, pitiful losers who feel the government and the economy have abandoned them. Hence, Clinton divided Trump’s supporters into two categories: Closet white supremacists or the pathetic economically downtrodden. Ultimately, she simply expressed liberals’ hatred and contempt of middle- and working-class Americans — what Richard Nixon termed the Silent Majority.
Her anti-American bigotry may play well in progressive circles. But her comments have shattered her ability to be the next commander-in-chief.
Then-candidate Barack Obama in 2008 famously disparaged rural voters in Pennsylvania as those who “bitterly cling” to their Bibles, guns or “antipathy” to “immigrants.” His comments were pernicious (and false). Yet, they didn’t go anywhere near as far as Hillary’s “deplorables” comments.
She has done something unprecedented: openly revile and vilify half of the country. She has crossed the Rubicon. She cannot possibly unify or lead America after publicly demonstrating such outright contempt and disgust with 50 percent of Americans.
Think about it: What leader — outside of a dictatorial demagogue — could possibly govern a nation, half of whose citizens are loathed? Moreover, those very citizens — the “deplorables” — will not respect or pay allegiance to a regime and a leader who says they are not only “irredeemable” but not even a “part of America.” They will be rendered exiles in their own land, a relentless target of government abuse and harassment.
If Hillary wins, she will preside over a deeply fractured and alienated country. She will lack the ability — even the very legitimacy — to govern. Under her tenure, America will continue to slowly break-up — morally, culturally and politically. The center will not be able to hold.
Moreover, she is Nixon in pant suits. Watergate eventually destroyed him. Clinton’s rampant criminal behavior will destroy her as well. There is one over-riding truth about Hillary: She is a political gangster, a Balkan-style oligarch who belongs in prison. Leave aside Clinton’s scandals regarding her personal server and emails, which compromised top secret classified information and violated numerous laws.
The deeper crime was the reason why she set-up a personal email system: to turn the Clinton Foundation into a secret slush fund to enrich her (and Bill) to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars. Since the Clinton Foundation was created the Clintons have amassed nearly $240 million in personal wealth. This grotesque amount is only what we know; the real figure could — and probably is — much higher.
In other words, she engaged in a massive criminal enterprise involving selling access, bribery, influence-peddling and corruption, in which she pimped out vital national security interests and even positions within the State Department to major Foundation donors.
It was a classic “pay-to-play” scheme. The Russians, Saudis, Gulf Arabs, Chinese, the Muslim Brotherhood — practically every U.S. enemy benefited from it.
When former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich engaged in pay-to-play, trying to sell a Senate seat, he got 14 years in prison. His crimes pale in comparison to Hillary’s. Yet, she still walks free — for now.
If Clinton somehow manages to grind out a victor in November, these facts will not disappear.
Liberals are supporting a criminal and a traitor. She sold her country out for power and money. This may fly with the morally bankrupt progressive Left. But it will not — and should not — with Middle America.
We will demand justice. And, just like Watergate, eventually we will get it.
One way or another, Hillary is going down.
Jeffrey T. Kuhner is a columnist at WorldTribune.com and the host of “The Kuhner Report” weekdays 12-3 pm EST on WRKO AM-680 in Boston.
This is a great read, thanks.
I agree we must keep fighting.
You are right. NEVER forget that the Democrats have 47% of the vote in the bag based on freebies alone. No matter WHO they run as a candidate.
Too much complacency. We have to fight like we are fighting hell itself. Certainly we are fighting hell’s proxies.
It is not yet in the bag.
Absolutely correct. We shouldn't be doing our "touchdown dance" while we're only at the 40 yard line. We need to fight for every single vote right up until the polls close on election day.
Even if Hillary is elected, she will not be the president. She will not run the country. The country will be run by the people behind her telling her to keep talking or whispering in her ear piece. Her health is so fragile that it will be someone else doing the real work. I have an idea who those people are, and it gives me nightmares.
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This 47% is very true, but, if the 47% are even a little dissatisfied with what they have and if the 47% can be made to believe that working is better than welfare . . . Well if only a few percent of those 47% stay home AND if a good percentage of the remaining 53% vote there is a chance.
Because of the way our founding fathers set up the electoral college the 53% are actually better represented in the college than the 47%. The 47% are packed into cities, in states with large populations. Thus, while there are a lot of US House representatives in those states the flyover country has an advantage of sorts in senate electors.
In states, basically states not on the coast, there is a higher percentage of people not of the “47%” than in the states with big cities, except for Nebraska all those electoral votes will go to the winner. Likely Trump will carry all those states. It is looking more and more like Trump will carry some of the contested or usually Democrat states too. Trump will lose the 55 votes in California but has a chance in Pa., NJ., FL., NC., certainly SC., and maybe even his home state of NY. Several of the far west states like CO, NM,AZ and NV are in play. If Trump wins most of these states he will be president. Right now he is leading in polling in most of these states. Counting electoral college votes right now based on liberal polling Trump is winning. We haven't seen Hillary's October surprise yet and that worries me. If Trump wins, I think he will, it will be surely in good part because he can draw a crowd but he will owe an awful lot to Julian Assage.
There are many people at State and IRS that are guilty of crimes and should be tried and all of them that participated in the shenanigans of Hillary and Obama should be impeached and never draw another penny from the treasury. This includes John Kerry, who by the way served in Vietnam.
I agree. A part of me will be relieved if she wins, because I strongly believe we’ll finally see the massive debt bubble burst within four to five years, and I wouldn’t want that tied to poor Mr. Trump. It’s going to be messy and I think the magic number on the clock will be $23-24 Trillion.
EXACTLY!! Not too long ago the she devil and the whole liberal establishment were prematurely celebrating her victory and measuring the drapes for the WH! We must be extremely cautious and work like hell to get trump into the White House!
This is Hillary's final push campaign strategy I guess. The MSM is helping her out with it too. Sheesh.
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The country has turned against the LSM. Only old, old people who can’t use a computer still tune in to them.
Basically, nobody believes them. There is no trust there. So if they say UP, the people think the truth is DOWN.
The LSM can’t accept this reality, thus the continue to double down. It is to Trumps benefit. Let it continue until the whole lot of them are swept into the dustheap of history!
Agree. A splendid read of a column. Thanks for posting.
I always wonder who and why a “supporter” at any of these events records and releases the damning comments. Is it someone who is finally appalled by this, or is it someone who thinks it is spot on and wants to proudly put it out for everyone to hear?
Oddly enough Watergate was the first evidence Hilly was ethically challenged.
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1992 was my first time voting and that wasn’t all that long ago. I remember Bill and Hillary looking vibrant and robust. I look at both of them today and it’s like you can SEE how their wickedness and lust has, literally, corrupted them physically. That’s not age. Many much older than they look far better, are in superior health. It’s really pretty astonishing to see their evil reflected in their appearances across the decades.
The private system also allowed her to get Sid Blumenthal’s advice on State Department matters.
I recall several years ago, when folks were asking who she’s communicating with so often on her blackberry, and the answer was Sid.
Did he have top secret clearance back then? I have no idea myself, but he was definitely advising her in these matters. She’s a fraud from the get-go.
I wonder why she depended so heavily on Sid for advice.
Dirty political tricks is one thing—that’s how he picked up the nickname “Sid Vicious”—but assuming that knowledge extends to advice on international operations of State seems like a big stretch. It seems reckless and stupid.
I’ve got $10 that says she goes down Monday night. Literally. LOL!
“It seems reckless and stupid.”
Yes it was. And it’s being revealed exactly what vicious, greedy, reckless and stupid have cost this country. Yet here she is with apparently half of the voting public wanting more.
I am, God willing, STILL VOTING TRUMP anyway!!
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