The missing effect

Published September 20, 2016 4:01am ET



For most of her life, Hillary Clinton has yearned in the very worst way to be the first woman president, and now that she may be, few people care. This doesn’t mean they don’t want her to win the election — they do — but this feeling comes from the Trump-stopping faction, and not from the feminist side.

“Don’t you someday want to see a woman president?” she asked in 2015. But she has not said it lately, and few people since have been making this argument.

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