Poor Hillary. 2008 was her year and she blew it, and 2016 isn’t the same. She’s 68, close to the end of the timeline for running for president, and she took the wrong job, which looked at the time like a brilliant decision but turned out to be a mistake. She’s tied to a failed foreign policy, tied to Benghazi and Libya, and her new job opened the door to large scale corruption at the Clinton Foundation and to the chance that she took with the personal server, which has led to a brush with the law.

Worst of all, the card that the she thought was her sure-fire ticket — the thrill of electing the first woman president — had an expiration date on it, which seemed to come due at some unspecified moment when she was taking her ill-gotten gains to the bank. Squeaking by in Iowa on some iffy coin-tosses, and losing New Hampshire by 21 points to an older male socialist, she lost the women’s vote by eleven points, the youth vote by 70 and the votes of young women by 10.