No, Hillary Clinton, the First Woman to Win a Major-Party Presidential Nomination, - HRC Group
Does Not Need to Shut Up About It
Hillary Clinton will release her election memoir, What Happened, tomorrow, and as is the case with pretty much everything she’s ever done, some people—including those in her own party—are pissed about it. Democrats are “dreading” Clinton’s book tour, according to Politico, with one Democratic representative saying the attention around What Happened is being met with a “collective groan.”
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They’re angry Clinton is assigning blame, including to her former opponent Bernie Sanders, for what she says were his egregiously harsh primary attacks on her. In comparing What Happened and Sanders’s new book, Bernie Sanders’ Guide to Political Revolution, Salon offers a character analysis: Sanders, as ever, is the noble one, with his “forward-thinking guide for the young,” while Clinton is “naming names, bristling at her unfair loss and cashing in.” Which, yes, brings us to another thread of criticism: That in writing this book at all, for which she certainly collected a hefty advance (her last book deal was reported to be in the tens of millions), Clinton has dollar signs in her eyes. And, last but not least, of course, some critics allege Clinton is just playing the ol’ woman card again when she posits that misogyny factored in to her defeat, writing in What Happened that some people are still “much more skeptical and critical of somebody who doesn’t look like and talk like and sound like everybody else who’s been president.”
There’s some truth to at least one facet of this new Clinton backlash: For many people, these are indeed dark times and the Democratic party does need to get its act together and focus on resisting and defeating Trump. But for the most part, the criticism of Clinton’s book is just more sexist drivel from the never-ending well of misogyny and sexism that’s been being hurled in her direction during her long career of public service. Hillary Clinton doesn’t have to go out “gently”—or be otherwise schooled on how she should or should not handle her particular, unprecedented situation. She’s the first woman to win a major party’s presidential nomination in American history; she definitely doesn’t have to shut up about it, not now, not ever.
https://www.vogue.com/article/hillary-clinton-what-happened-doesnt-have-to-shut-up/amp
Great article. What a great loss for America.
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