For almost eight years, Hillary Clinton has been playing a very, very long session of Monday morning quarterback, always focusing on the same damn game: the 2016 Presidential election. You’d think it would get boring at this point. Especially since our country has undergone seismic events that make 2016 feel like ancient history.
It’s time to move on. But Clinton is as engaged as ever in this post-election analysis. She’s prolific and innovative when it comes to mining blame and finding fresh excuses to explain her upset loss to Donald Trump.
Clinton sees scapegoats everywhere. Her latest target is women. (Credit where credit is due: At least she isn’t calling us “uterus owners.
”) Women were, she says, led astray by an old Clinton bogeyman — former FBI head James Comey, who re-opened a last-minute investigation into her private email and called her actions “extremely careless.” “But once he did that to me, the people, the voters who left me, were women,” she told the New York Times in an interview Saturday . “They left me because they just couldn’t take a risk on me, because as a woman, I’m supposed to be perfect.
They were willing to take a risk on Trump — who had a long list of, let’s call them flaws, to illustrate his imperfection — because he was a man, and they could envision a man as president and commander in chief.” Women hypnotized by the patriarchy were too dumb to see she was the truth and the way. It was lady on lady sexism, you.