HRC Descending

It must be difficult being Hillary Rodham Clinton (HRC). There she was in 2016, the presumptive first woman president. After all, every poll told us she would win; the trained hamsters in the media insisted she was a foregone conclusion. Sure, her campaign kneecapped an aging communist (oops, democratic socialist) who probably would have beaten her in the primaries if the fight was fair (Hillary never fights fair). But that's internal DNC stuff. She had more money and infinitely more media support than her GOP opponent. But. She. Lost.

For the next two years, Hillary Clinton told us that the guy who soundly beat her is illegitimate. That the electoral college (you know, the rules that she agreed to play by) should be abolished; that the meany Russkies plotted against her; that half the country hates women or are stupid or deplorable.

And now, she says this (as reported in USA Today):

"You cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for, what you care about," Clinton told CNN's Christiane Amanpour. "That's why I believe, if we are fortunate enough to win back the House and or the Senate, that's when civility can start again."

Clinton said that Senate Republicans under Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., "demeaned the confirmation process" and "insulted and attacked" Christine Blasey Ford – who testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee about a sexual assault she alleges Kavanaugh committed in 1982 – along with other "women who were speaking out."

Let's dissect this idiocy one sentence at a time:

You cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for, what you care about ...

Last time I checked, it was the Left, not the GOP that demanded that statues and people be destroyed because they don't conform to the Left's current world view. Conservatives don't like the positions taken by those on the Left, but I haven't recently seen a conservative mob try to silence any Leftist from speaking on a college campus, and I really haven't seen any GOP politicians suggest (as Maxine Waters has) that threatening their opponents is good politics. Nor have I heard GOP bigwigs, like past AG Eric Holder, say, "When they go low, we kick them!" to the cheers of party faithful. Nor have I heard any GOP politicians suggest that an entire gender "Just shut up!" as Senator Mazie Hirono (D-HI) did.

That's why I believe, if we are fortunate enough to win back the House and or the Senate, that's when civility can start again."

Little children sometimes throw temper tantrums when they don't get what they want. Of course, that kind of behavior is unacceptable, but understandable. But what HRC is telling us is that the Dems will act like spoiled children, throwing a special kind of tantrum until they get their power back—power they lost by being dishonest, ineffective, and generally incompetent as leaders.

Clinton said that Senate Republicans under Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., "demeaned the confirmation process" and "insulted and attacked" Christine Blasey Ford – who testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee about a sexual assault she alleges Kavanaugh committed in 1982 – along with other "women who were speaking out."

Hillary Clinton has a strong reputation for bending the truth. She reinforces this assertion. The GOP bent over backward to accommodate Blasey Ford; subjected her to the most cursory interrogatory, and never directly questioned her veracity, only her very thin and unsubstantiated accusations. The "other women who were speaking out" had accusations that were so preposterous, even the NYT wouldn't publish them, and they later recanted or modified those accusations under penalty of perjury.

But Hillary persists in her pathetic quest to somehow vindicate herself. In my view, she should take the advice that Senator Mazie Hirono directed at the opposite gender.

UPDATE-1:
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Daniel Henninger comments on the descent of the Democratic party itself:

The professional network of the Code Pink Left, typified by the George-Soros-funded woman who trapped Sen. Jeff Flake in an elevator, has virtually no interest in substantive policy goals.

The Code Pink Left specializes in creating political story lines or “frames”—such as that conservatives are weak on sexual abuse—which it promotes with theatrical protests, distributes on social media, and depends on mainstream media for constant repetition. This is something familiar. It is called agitprop.

The goal is to make the broader electorate nervous and doubtful. It worked. Many voters are now nervous about the Democrats’ street-fighting men and women. Every Republican from Donald Trump down to dogcatcher is running against the Democrats’ “angry mob” of Senate screamers and restaurant marauders.

What about the alt-right’s role in the new incivility? Good question. The answer is, they’re gone. The most visible face of conservatism through the Kavanaugh fight was . . . Sen. Chuck Grassley.

A valid criticism of Donald Trump is that he hasn’t expanded his base into a broader coalition. But his luck in attracting self-destructive opponents is astonishing.

Trump Derangement Syndrome is a powerful thing. It makes otherwise decent people do really dumb stuff. It turns smart guys into fools. It allows bad actors to take over a once great political party and turn it into ... well, that remains to be seen.

UPDATE-2 (12-Oct-2018):
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Conservative writer Kyle Smith pulls no punches when he puts his tongue squarely in his cheek and writes:

Does she have to spell it out for you, America? Hillary Clinton wants you to beg her to run for president in 2020. On behalf of America, I am answering. Hillary Rodham Clinton, I beg you: Please run again.

Hillary Clinton is precisely the candidate the Democratic party needs. And the Democratic party she represents is exactly the one the country needs: foolhardy, inept, dismissive of reality, blind to appearances, deaf to lessons, alien to the heartland, and contemptuous of the voters. The longer Hillary Clinton remains the Democrats’ idea of a standard-bearer, the better off the country will be. She should run in 2020. And in 2024. And forever.