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In reply to the discussion: Hillary became "unlikable" when she became successful in her own right. It's all about sexism. [View all]Orsino
(37,428 posts)The sheer weight of sexism she faced, plus the reflected un-glory from her husband, have forced her into more triangulating and compromises than a male politician would have faced. In having to play it so safe, she drove some of us more progressive voters bananas.
We prevented her from excelling by the usual rules, so she made her own path, and tempered her political compromises by building personal bridges, one at a goddamned time, wherever she went. She deserves so much of her popularity and admiration, and so little of the criticism aimed at her.
She will never be president herself, I guess, but she has beaten a path that other women will follow. We'll all be richer for it, and we'll probably never appreciate completely how much of it was accomplished by Hillary Clinton.
Assuming there are still elections.