Why Hillary Wins
Why Hillary Wins
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/21/opinion/why-hillary-wins.html?ref=opinion
by Paul Krugman at the NY Times
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And those establishment candidates were much more Trumpian than those fantasizing about a different history say, one in which the G.O.P. nominated Marco Rubio acknowledge. Many people remember Mr. Rubios brain glitch: the canned lines about lets dispel with this fiction that he kept repeating in a disastrous debate performance. Fewer seem aware that those lines actually enunciated a crazy conspiracy theory, essentially accusing President Obama of deliberately weakening America. Is that really much better than the things Mr. Trump says? Only if you imagine that Mr. Rubio didnt believe what he was saying yet his insincerity, the obvious way he was trying to play a part, was surely part of his weakness.
That is, in fact, a general problem for establishment Republicans. How many of them really believe that tax cuts have magical powers, that climate change is a giant hoax, that saying the words Islamic terrorism will somehow defeat ISIS? Yet pretending to believe these things is the price of admission to the club and the falsity of that pretense shines through.
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Furthermore, theres one thing Mrs. Clinton brought to this campaign that no establishment Republican could have matched: She truly cares about her signature issues, and believes in the solutions shes pushing.
I know, were supposed to see her as coldly ambitious and calculating, and on some issues like macroeconomics she does sound a bit bloodless, even when she clearly understands the subject and is talking good sense. But when shes talking about womens rights, or racial injustice, or support for families, her commitment, even passion, are obvious. Shes genuine, in a way nobody in the other party can be.
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