@abbenm Yup, and all the supposedly lefty political blogs went instantly in the tank for her, claiming that Clinton was such a canny and battle-hardened politico that she'd make up for all these massive negatives with sheer skill (skill that the dotty old hippie from Vermont lacked, of course.)

The quality that was supposed to make up for all of Clinton's demerits was that she was a whizbang, hard-scrabble politician—and I'd really like to know what she did to gain this reputation. There's something faintly pathetic about a supposedly hardened campaigner blaming everyone around for not clapping loudly enough.

@kara_dreamer well, apparently she's not a scrappy campaigner, but the whiz-bang hard-scrabble part was what happens when in power. there certainly is a good point that the skills it takes to win an election, particularly a national one, aren't necessarily the ones it takes to govern/legislate/etc well.

@amylsacks Why is she even still quarrelling about this anyway?! The country is bleeding, dying before our eyes, and months later she and her partisans are STILL whingeing about how unfair the press was and how the "BernieBros" are to blame. Is this what her presidency would have been like? Bad decisions and mishandled policy fights followed by endless complaints about how unfair it all was? Was this our purported master politician?

@kara_dreamer

I'm old enough to remember how the "progressives". who bashed Nader would cry and cry about the sanctity of the primary system. If you wouldn't submit to it, you were automatically lower than a worm.

Now we've moved on to primary challenges being inherently misogynistic and traumatizing. (And I'm not even a Bernie fan but even I know a moving goalpost when I see one.)

@amylsacks Yeah, I wasn't a huge Sanders fan either, but it's partly due to Clinton's death-grip on the Democratic apparatus that we got saddled with Sanders as our only alternative, anyway. She sucked all the air out of the race.

@kara_dreamer It's a continual source of dismay to me that any so-called feminist thinks she's the best we could ever hope to do.

These fools bought the shoddy, ugly trinkets with their lazy, fake-ass "reclamation" and called that "resistance."

They gobbled down the warmed-over legacy pablum, brought to them by the family that screwed over millions of women around the world for more profit than *anyone* could possibly need, and called that liberating. It makes me furious.

@kara_dreamer

Russia made me toot this. [cashes check, buys cupcakes]