Here’s what the media was going to publish if Clinton won

Thanks to Newsweek, we have a slightly better idea of what the media would have said if Donald Trump hadn’t won the election. Zach Schonfeld, a senior writer for Newsweek, compiled several examples of what writers had pre-written to publish when Hillary Clinton won the election.

Here’s what Marin Cogan prepared for Vox.com:

And yet: Hillary Clinton’s victory is historic — a triumph that should not be overlooked. It marks the end of centuries of exclusion of women from the nation’s top job. Even more remarkable was the way she won it: by running as a woman, who championed policies aimed at women, against an avatar of reactionary sexism. She won under politically tainted investigation, in spite of plenty of legitimate criticism, and in the face of an incredible amount of sexism. In voting for her, Americans rejected Donald Trump’s old, macho vision of leadership and embraced a new paradigm, one that values not only a new style of leadership but also a policy outlook that prioritizes women and children.

Katie Halper, a freelance writer and a radio host who voted against Clinton in the primaries, had an open letter to Clinton planned.

As someone who supported Bernie Sanders in the primary but still fought to defeat Donald Trump, I want to say thank you and you’re welcome. Thank you for delivering us from Trump. And you’re welcome for the work we did to send you to the White House.

… Let’s be real. I’m not that into you, and you’re not that into me. And I know the kind of woman you are. You play hard to get; you’re fickle; you say one thing and then do the opposite. You like one “position” one week and then hate it the next one. You like to play the field and swing both ways, to the left and to the right. You call yourself a moderate, but I’ve seen the way you look at Republicans. The way your face lights up when Henry Kissinger walks into a room. You never look at me that way.

To be clear, no one should be criticized for pre-writing articles (accidentally publishing them is a different matter). On Election Day, I prewrote articles comparing Trump’s election performance to Mitt Romney’s in 2012 and John McCain’s in 2008. There were even some really cool graphs that I never got to show off to the world. But those articles were written under the assumption Trump was going to get fewer votes than McCain and Romney.

Whoops.

Jason Russell is the contributors editor for the Washington Examiner.