Hillary Clinton wrote an embarrassing guest essay in the New York Times yesterday rife with both humorous and disingenuous jabs at former President Donald Trump.
The piece was theoretically about strategies President Joe Biden could employ during the presidential debate on Thursday night, but it quickly morphed into something else. Clinton essentially rifled through all the most common talking points against Trump while intermittently covering Biden’s tracks.
That’s typical for those supporting Biden in the election. Their strategy isn’t to talk about Biden’s accomplishments, since there aren’t many, but to divert voter’s attention to all the purportedly awful things Trump has done.
Clinton was kind enough to give us a special look into her debate preparation back in 2016. She wrote, “A longtime adviser played Mr. Trump and did everything he could to provoke, rattle and enrage me. It worked.” The thought of a Clinton adviser ripping into her over the deleted emails or her husband’s affair is hilarious, but the idea of her genuinely getting rattled in that moment is even funnier. He must have brought up Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT).
She also claimed that Trump’s debate strategy will fall flat “if Mr. Biden is as direct and forceful as he was when engaging Republican hecklers at the State of the Union address in March.” Biden was many things in that moment, including being petrified, frozen, and divisive, to name a few, but if that’s his version of being “forceful,” Trump might just do all right on Thursday.
Clinton later asserted that Biden “starts from a disadvantage” because an entire week spent at Camp David clearly isn’t enough preparation time. Do you think he’s using flash cards to memorize the names of foreign leaders?
Clinton also spent a few paragraphs listing Biden’s supposed accomplishments. For some reason, the Biden administration has decided that capping insulin at $35 for seniors will single-handedly lead them to victory. It’s also important to mention that inflation occurred because of corporate price gouging, of course.
The most compelling line in the piece, however, is one that probably should never have been printed. After claiming that Trump will cause further inflation and limit freedom, she wrote, “It won’t just be a rerun of his first term.” She said the quiet part out loud here. After ironically spending paragraph after paragraph bashing Trump, she implicitly admitted that his first term was indeed a success.
No matter her lifeless prose and disingenuous commentary, Clinton’s piece is a reflection of both her refusal to stay out of the spotlight and the unique desperation of the Democrats relative to Trump’s growing popularity.
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Clinton closed by writing, “No matter what happens in the debate, that’s an easy choice.”
Well, yes, it is.