Rolling Stone magazine has endorsed Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton.
“Hillary Clinton has an impressive command of policy, the details, trade-offs and how it gets done. It’s easy to blame billionaires for everything, but quite another to know what to do about it,” editor and publisher Jann S. Wenner said in an editorial published Wednesday.
Though praising Clinton’s rival Bernie Sanders as a “gifted and eloquent politician” and his rightly placed “anger” about big banks and inequality, his explanation of a “political revolution” is not correct.
“This is a vague, deeply disingenuous idea that ignores the reality of modern America,” Wenner wrote. “I have been to the revolution before. It ain’t happening.”
According to Wenner, Clinton “has the experience and achievements as first lady, senator and secretary of state,” but is strongly committed to social justice and human rights issues.
“You get a sense of ‘authenticity’ when you hear Sanders talking truth to power, but there is another kind of authenticity, which may not feel as good but is vitally important, when Clinton speaks honestly about what change really requires, about incremental progress, about building on what Obama has achieved in the arenas of healthcare, clean energy, the economy, the expansion of civil rights,” Wenner concluded.
The endorsement comes after Clinton won the Arizona primary on Tuesday, while Sanders added wins in Utah and Idaho.
