Clinton Won't Be Silenced No Matter How Many Male Opinion Writers Demand It (HRC Group)

Note: This is posted in the HRC Group.


Hillary Clinton’s new book, What Happened, doesn’t drop until Tuesday, but with some juicy leaked excerpts and an interview with Jane Pauley on CBS Sunday Morning, it’s clear that the Clinton who failed to go hard on primary opponent Bernie Sanders and who tried to put policy at the forefront in the general election against the wildly unpredictable, fallacious Donald Trump is no longer playing the dutiful female candidate.

When a leaked excerpt from the book in which she relates her story about how Sanders handed Trump the “crooked Hillary” playbook and how his supporters bullied her supporters online with misogynist rhetoric, commentators on the far left fell apart in dozens of opinion pieces with dog-whistle language that evoked Freud, stopping just short of calling her “hysterical.” But Clinton proved in her interview with Pauley that she has every intention of owning her victories and every intention of not remaining silent or of playing nice with the right or those on the far left who’ve already begun slamming viable female candidates like Kamala Harris.

“Oh, I don’t agree with that, and the primary was part of what happened. I won a landslide victory in the primary,” Clinton said when Pauley said that writing about Sanders's lackluster support of her in the general election was “opening a barely healed wound in your own party.”

“I know what it’s like to win and I know what it’s like to lose, and when I lost to Barack Obama I immediately turned around. I endorsed him, I worked for him, I convinced my supporters to vote for him,” Clinton said. “I didn’t get the same respect from my primary opponent.”

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