’90s Scandals Threaten to Erode Hillary Clinton’s Strength With Women
Note it doesn't say "elite upper income" women.
Just women.
And as Vanity Fair just said:
"Sanders ... enjoys unexpectedly high support among the young, female voters that Clinton was counting on..."
Not, "young, female" "elite upper income" women. Just women.
Again from the NYT:
"But the resurfacing of the scandals of the 1990s has brought about a rethinking among some feminists about how prominent women stood by Mr. Clinton and disparaged his accusers ...
Even some Democrats who participated in the effort to discredit the women acknowledge privately that today, when Mrs. Clinton and other women have pleaded with the authorities on college campuses and in workplaces to take any allegation of sexual assault and sexual harassment seriously, such a campaign to attack the women’s character would be unacceptable.
Back then, Mr. Clinton’s aides, having watched Gary Hart’s presidential hopes unravel over his relationship with Donna Rice in the 1988 Democratic primary race, were determined to squash any accusations against Mr. Clinton early and aggressively, former campaign aides explained. Mrs. Clinton had supported the effort to push back against the women’s stories.
Much of her involvement played out behind the scenes, and was driven, in part, by her sense that right-wing forces were using the women and salacious stories to damage her husband’s political ambitions. Her reflex was to protect him and his future, and, early on, she turned to a longtime Clinton loyalist, Ms. Wright, to defend him against the allegations, according to multiple accounts at the time, documented in books and oral histories.
When Gennifer Flowers later surfaced, claiming that she had a long affair with Mr. Clinton, Mrs. Clinton undertook an “aggressive, explicit direction of the campaign to discredit” Ms. Flowers, according to an exhaustive biography of Mrs. Clinton, “A Woman in Charge,” by Carl Bernstein.
Mrs. Clinton referred to Monica Lewinsky, the White House intern who had an affair with the 42nd president, as a “narcissistic loony toon,” according to one of her closest confidantes, Diane D. Blair, whose diaries were released to the University of Arkansas after her death in 2000. Ms. Lewinsky later called the comment an example of Mrs. Clinton’s impulse to “blame the woman.”
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That sort of behaviour is seen as both real and unacceptable by women. Many women have seen people like Bill Cosby attack victims for years with no repercussions, and don't think the people that help him deserve credit for "loyalty" to Cosby. Women, that i have spoken to, friends and colleagues, and people on DU and other forums, don't think that Clinton should he hated for cheating on his wife - all relationships are unknowable from the outside essentially - but that attacking and trying to discredit women, for political gain, especially women who claim assault or being manipulated to maintain silence, that sort of behaviour is not something to take lightly.
And again, those opinions aren't coming from the "wealthy elite".
Nor does this story say that those opinions are only of the wealthy elite.
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