Where that dislike of her politics eventually turns into dislike of her personally is hard to say. Yes, there are plenty of unfair attacks on her. Those bother me because they obscure the many, many extremely fair things for which she should be held to account. The right-wing obsession with Benghazi, for instance, obscures the very real problems HRC's policy of pushing regime change created, and the unmitigated disaster that has ensued. The right is concerned about whether the Clintons killed Vince Foster. Who cares? What I am concerned about are the Clintonian policies are responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of civilians stretched across a number of different countries. As I've mentioned in other threads, it is entirely, logically possible that HRC is not corrupt in the ways that the right tends to paint her, yet incredibly corrupted in many other, more troubling ways.
Of course, I admit my biases. I have never had love for the Clintons, and I see the politics they represent as center-right. Even HRC, to the extent that she's been forced to pivot left during the primaries, will likely--in my view, at least--snap back to classic Clinton politics the minute she gets near any official position, be it the presidency or anything else. Is she better than the GOP on various issues? Maybe. It would be easier to say if I could actually get a fix on what her real views are; yet I realize that they are the reverse of what they were even a few years ago, and tomorrow will probably vastly different yet again. In fact, if Hillary were to sit this election out and run 4-8 years from now, perhaps she'd have finally "evolved" into Bernie's entire platform. It seems she is always about 8 years behind the right side of history, so that seems like a safe time frame.
Not a huge fan of Walsh or Marcotte either, but again, that's because I think their politics suck and because I think they promote a kind of self-obsessed and (as I've put it elsewhere) white, first-world, selective McFeminism, in which Margaret Thatcher herself could easily be propped up as some kind of feminist icon. As for the Bernie Bros garbage, this same circle poisons the political atmosphere by helping to push HRC campaign talking points into the MSM echo chamber--although I think much of it goes back to Rebecca Traister, who not only pushed the Bernie Bros narrative, but also the Obama Boys narrative.
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