Hillary Clinton's Back, and She's Speaking for the Majority - By Eleanor Clift

[DonViejo]

Clinton spent some time walking in the woods, but she’s not a wounded loner—she’s determined to figure out how she can use the platform she gained by winning almost 3 million votes more than Donald Trump.

ELEANOR CLIFT

04.14.17 1:00 AM ET

Young women who weren’t excited about Hillary Clinton’s candidacy are energized by her loss in ways they probably never could have imagined. They’re showing up at town halls, signing up for candidate training, and joining activist groups. And it’s not only millennial women waking up and fueling the resistance. Women across the spectrum—schoolteachers, nurses, IT workers—are turning up the political heat, and Clinton is taking notice.

“There’s a realization that when she speaks, she speaks for the majority of the country,” a former aide told The Daily Beast. “It’s a platform we’ve never had,” the aide enthused, until reminded about Al Gore’s popular vote margin in the 2000 election.

Gore garnered 540,000 more votes than George W. Bush in an election that turned on faulty ballots in Florida and was settled by the Supreme Court in Bush’s favor. Gore didn’t hang around to see if anyone wanted to hear from him. He grew a beard and gave up on national politics.

Clinton spent some time walking in the woods, but she’s not a dreamer and she’s not a wounded loner. She’s a practical woman determined to figure out how she can use the platform that she gained by winning almost 3 million votes more than Donald Trump in the November election.

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[lapucelle]

1. What's with the shade Eleanor?

Gore didn't grow a beard and give up. He grew a beard and became a powerful and influential environmental activist. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts only a few years after he was scorned as "the lesser of two evils".

[BeyondGeography]

2. Not exactly fair to Gore

His work on global warming has been pretty significant; certainly much more valuable than anything he could have achieved in domestic politics as a defeated candidate post 9/11. I thought the fuck-you beard was a good and healthy touch too.

[DavidDvorkin]

3. It's always been fashionable to sneer at Gore

Nothing has changed in that regard.

[BeckyDem]

4. Gore minimizing after all these years, that seems pointless and unfair.

[elleng]

5. ?????

[That Guy 888]

6. There seem to be A LOT of these stories lately.

That Dem's want to get in front of organic protests against Trump is good, but I question the motives of Democratic politicians who didn't seem that interested in populism (except as a dangerous left-wing tea-party that needed to be ignored or crushed).

That being said, I hope she finds something positive for her post-political career like Jimmy Carter did.