As the days go by we discover more and more how badly the country and Hillary Clinton were cheated in this election. So where is the public outrage beyond the army of Clinton supporters on the net? Imagine if it were revealed that Bill Clinton or Barack Obama or Joe Biden had used a foreign power to win an election? The outrage would have blown them out of the white house or more likely they would never have made it to their inauguration.Their opponent would have been vindicated and the wrong righted. But Hillary Clinton’s Russian saboteurs knew well where to find both the weapons and the people to wield them. How simple to use the lies of the GOP to poison the minds of the easily influenced left and the already indoctrinated far right. Add in the media’s long competition for the coveted honor of being the outlet who finally tripped Clinton up and you have all the pawns in place for the Russian created gauntlet Hillary Clinton had to face during the campaign. The amazing story of the whole debacle is that she made it to the end unbowed and unbroken and leading in the polls. She stayed true to herself, she kept going high when the opposition had buried itself in depths unknown since the founders put ink to the declaration of independence. Assailed on all sides she buried her opponents in the debates, her ground game was almost unanimously reported as being unbeatable. While she was assailed at press conferences and media town halls about emails and Benghazi she did interviews in every city and town answering local reporters’ questions about her plans and policies. Despite the negativity of her opponents campaigns hers was positive and upbeat stressing the themes of Stronger Together and Do the Most Good. When she went negative it was only to use her opponents own words against him. Believing in the inherent decency and fairness of Americans to judge rightly when confronted with a campaign that attacked a gold star family, incited racism and was indicted by its own words in the “pussy grabber” video she kept to the high road. She believed in us.
In the post-election grief and shock we awoke to a newly created narrative. Where there had been acceptance as to the strength of the Clinton campaign and ground game instead suddenly blaring from every headline came the narrative of the “flawed candidate” and the “failed campaign”. Even in the rare positive article something was born that I call the Clinton disclaimer. Any reporter writing an election post Mortem that praised the campaign felt required to qualify it by saying some variation of “not that I’m saying she wasn’t a flawed candidate.”
As if scripted the Bernie or Busters leapt immediately into action in the comment sections and blogs sowing dissension among Democrats and howling that Bernie who lost the primary by 4 million votes would have beaten Trump. They unpacked the old GOP lies and incited a fight over the election of the next DNC chair.
Women reeling in grief and horror sought to plan a women’s march on Washington. The planners were attacked by pro Bernie Sanders women and accused of racism and then co-opted by Sander’s supporters into purging any mention of Hillary Clinton from the march (while arrogantly using her slogan, Women’s Rights are Human Rights to market it). “The era of Clintonism is gone,” said Winnie Wong, a co-author of the Women’s March guiding principles document and the co-founderof People for Bernie, an active grassroots group. “Finished. Finito. She lost.”Wong,the co-founder of People for Bernie, said: “The governor’s race in Massachusetts: roll her out there. Send her to fundraisers. But do not send her to a town hall to talk about poverty in coal country wearing a $12,000 jacket and diamonds that are slightly more modest than Melania’s.” The hypocrisy of the far left bathed in class struggle hatred and a blindness for the difference between a woman whose jewels and clothing were purchased via marriage to a man who was born with a silver spoon and the woman we see via this quote. “Clinton delivered the St Patrick’s Day speech in Scranton, Pennsylvania, a former industrial center where her grandfather worked in a lace mill and where her father was born, raised and buried.” To these pro Sanders women there is no difference between Donald Trump, born into money and Hillary Clinton, someone who epitomizes the American dream of coming from humble origins and working hard to achieve success. The truth is that had she shown up at this event in blue jeans sans jewelry and wearing a top from Walmart they would have branded her a poser just as they mocked her for the accent she picked up after living in Arkansas for nearly 20 years. If you are Hillary Clinton you are damned if you do and damned if you don’t. You are held to conflicting standards and judged by people who can’t admit they were taken in by GOP lies, Russian trolls and an old man from Vermont who hasn’t ever been challenged outside his liberal Vermont bubble or undergone the scrutiny and testing that has been the fabric of Hillary Clinton’s life for over 30 years.
In the end, it’s up to us to fight for her. It’s up to us to have her back. We must make sure that when the dust settles and Trump has fled either back to one of his towers, to Mar-A-Lago, to prison or to his Russian masters that we do not allow them to push her under the bus. It’s up to us to shout down the lies. It’s up to us to fight for justice for Hillary Clinton. If we march we need to march for HER, if we support someone they need to support HER, if we donate it needs to be understood that she will be respected and supported or those donations will cease. Hillary has never been “establishment”.She has learned how to play that game for us. She has taken their punishment for us. She has shown us what courage is. Fight the false narrative. Challenge the lies. Do not let them erase her. Insist that the wrong be righted and Hillary placed in office. Fight for her and never ever give up. We are Hillary.