“I have to be better than everyone, I have to work harder,” Hillary Clinton said recently in an interview printed in the New York Times on November 16. “There’s no margin for me when others have so much leeway. It’s a pressure cooker all the time.”

Oh, Hillary — please. If any woman in the world has had protection and leeway, as well as unfair advantages over other contenders, it was she. All her life, she has lived in a hothouse, protected and helped by a masculine presence who gave her more help, aid, and comfort in all that she did than most male politicians could possibly hope for. And that is, or course, her own husband, Bill.