Liberals couldn’t hear enough from Hillary Clinton over the last three years, tracking her blaming of everyone but herself for her 2016 campaign’s dazzling defeat. Why should she stop talking now?
Yet, that’s what liberal New York Times editorial writer Mara Gay is begging her to do.
In a column for the paper on Tuesday, Gay wrote, “Listen, I get it. It must be hard, after a bitter defeat that kept her from being the country’s first female president, to see her former rival rise in the polls, beloved by his supporters. But considering the stakes, it’d be best if Mrs. Clinton worked through all that on her own.”
In short: Shut up, Hillary!
Gay’s angst comes in light of a recent interview with Clinton, wherein she said that “nobody likes” Bernie Sanders, her 2016 primary rival for the Democratic nomination. “Nobody wants to work with him, he got nothing done. He was a career politician. It’s all just baloney and I feel so bad that people got sucked into it.”
Not that it’s saying much, but this is probably the most useful thing Clinton has said since 2016. Not because I like the internal Democrat-on-Democrat drama but because it clashes the vision Sanders’s supporters must have — that he’ll be able to work with Congress to get any one of his radical proposals signed into law and that he’s in any way a Washington outsider.
Up until those remarks, Clinton was singing the same screeching song she had been singing all along about Russia fixing the election, James Comey fixing the election, and sexism fixing the election.
Most liberals remained “with her” through all of that, but now that she might actually be helping guide the party to avoid a potential disaster of a nominee, some want her to stop talking.
I think she should keep going.
