Former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton continues to show signs of disappointment after losing to Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election eight years ago. The former senator and secretary of state has lamented her loss for years now, mentioning her failed political campaign on many occasions. Unsurprisingly, she channeled her political nostalgia again in a New York Times op-ed, referencing her campaign and political experience while endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee.
As the Washington Examiner previously reported, Clinton credited herself while discussing Harris’s candidacy, with the odd, self-congratulatory claim that she was a political pioneer who paved the way for Harris. It is the kind of narcissistic, self-absorbed comment people have come to expect from Clinton. How self-centered must one be to credit oneself for another woman running for president?
This ignores the reality of what just happened in the Democratic Party. Not one Democratic voter in the country voted for Harris to be the nominee. The Democratic Party pulled off what many consider an unethical switcheroo, and Harris was essentially installed as a candidate.
After lamenting the so-called sexism that Clinton claimed is prevalent in the country’s political structure, despite numerous polls showing that former first lady Michelle Obama enjoyed much support as a hypothetical presidential candidate, Clinton said, “My two presidential campaigns made it seem normal to have a woman at the top of the ticket.”
“I know a thing or two about how hard it can be for strong women candidates to fight through the sexism and double standards of American politics,” Clinton wrote. She followed it up with, once again, her regrets of not being able to put together a successful presidential campaign.
“It still pains me that I couldn’t break that highest, hardest glass ceiling,” Clinton wrote.
Though seemingly every Democrat in the country has used inflammatory and vitriolic language to vilify Trump and Clinton essentially labeled half the voting population “deplorable,” she then bemoaned the fact that people called her a “nasty woman” and blamed such insults on “sexism.”
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Here is the truth: Clinton was not some pioneer. She was part of a corrupt political system that, given the events within the last week, revealed it would do anything to obtain power. She is a cantankerous woman with questionable ethics who craves political prestige, influence, attention, and the spotlight. She is a failed political candidate who rode the coattails of her husband, former President Bill Clinton, to obtain power and influence.
Hillary Clinton didn’t normalize anything. And she does not deserve any credit for women running for president.