Hillary Clinton blames everyone but herself for the fact that Donald Trump became President. Ever since election night I've been nurturing the feeling that she bore a lot of the responsibility for the disastrous outcome, but I haven't quite been able to find the right words. No problem! Garrison Keillor has done it for me, in a column in the Washington Post.
We Democrats bear some responsibility. Hillary Clinton was a symbolic candidate with a nice résumé who lacked the ability to connect with voters. This is a fatal flaw. She was almost beaten in the primaries by an elderly Vermont socialist. The party, bitterly divided, stuck to symbolism and tried to elect the First Woman President, though most women were not enthused about her. The party apparatus assumed she had to win. Who could possibly lose to an invincibly ignorant blowhard New York developer with a peroxide ducktail? As it turned out, she could.
You can read the entire column -- most of which is not actually about Trump and Clinton -- here.
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