2016 Postmortem
Showing Original Post only (View all)Hillary has spent most of her political career denying she's a liberal [View all]
Now here she is presenting herself as having always been a liberal. There is no reason to believe Hillary 7.0- or whatever this newest iteration of Hillary is.
I have no sense of who she is fundamentally. And that's not my fault. She keeps reinventing herself to fit the prevailing zeitgueist.
I know she's a fighter- at least when it comes to fighting for herself. I know she evolves sharply on issues like immigration, marriage equality, criminal justice and war in Iraq- she didn't just vote for the IWR, she supported that vote and the war for yeas. I know she strongly supports the TPP, even though she's hedging on it. I know she feels entitled to not tell us where she stands on keystone.
I know she speaks out for racial justice but apparently that doesn't stop her from supporting what is arguably the most racist institution in America; the Death Penalty.
I know she desperately wants to be President and to make history. But she has not expressed a coherent governing philosophy beyond "fighting for you and being your champion".
She's been a prominent American figure for 25 years. I've followed her closely and I still don't have a sense of who she is or what, beyond women's equality, her core beliefs are.
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