It kills me to write this but I won't vote for Hillary Clinton in 2020
in our primaries. I voted for her in 2008, and again enthusiastically in 2016. But given the fact that the press hates all things Clinton and shows no sign at all of changing that behavior, I can't vote for her in 2020. Ever since Bill Clinton came on the scene the press has had one set of rules when covering Clinton and a different set for the rest of Democrats, and a highly generous different set for pretty much every Republican. I think part of Clinton's negative coverage in both 2008 and 2016 was rank sexism and would have affected coverage of any female candidate but there was a non trivial aspect of Clinton rules that came into play.
To take one example. The NYT editorial page ran an excerpt of a book, called Clinton Cash by an author who wrote one other book, an anti Clinton screed that was rife with lies. They ran this excerpt with no editing of their own and shock of shocks it was rife with lies. It is literally unimaginable that any paper would have done this to any other politician. The NYT, and no other paper, would publish any part of David Kay Johnson's book on Trump for example despite his history as a tax reporter.
It is vitally important we win in 2020 and Clinton can't win as the press won't let her. We still hear, even now, about the Clinton Foundation as if it were some nefarious plot from the same sources that have refused to investigate the Trump Foundation until after he won the White House. I think sexism, while still a huge problem, will not infect the coverage as much as it did with her. Many of the worst offenders have been cashiered from their jobs and replaced in many cases by women. The rest won't want to look bad in the era of metoo. But the Clinton rules are like a cockroach. It will survive nuclear war. I literally believe Trump could start nuclear war tomorrow and a huge part of the press would start talking about Clinton selling uranium to the Russians. It honestly is that bad.
It is a true shame. A qualified women, who wasn't nice enough, and married a man named Clinton was destroyed by a spiteful, sexist, hateful, press corps and they would do it again in a minute. And no, I am not talking about the Coulters of this world. I am talking about the Times, the Post, MSNBC, CNN, and pretty much all of the press. There was literally no road too low for them to take if it was in service of attacking a Clinton.
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as an OP no less, maybe assume it may be resurrected whenever masochistic tendencies rise again.
When my less than admirable feelings rise, instead of trying to bury her I want to run HRC and vote for her again just to make others eat it. 
Btw, I'm only 95% sure she won't run again. She'd also make one hell of an involved VP. We have a whole lot of unfinished and unstarted business to do.
