As the DNC struggles for new charismatic leaders to revive their party, theoretically, Chelsea Clinton could have been a shoe-in. Unfortunately for them, she’s way too boring and a little too late.
Chelsea has recently attempted to reinvent herself with a “spicy, sarcastic online personality” and appears to have undergone a “social media personality transplant.”
The wannabe-politician has witnessed how Trump successfully uses Twitter to speak directly to the people in his own voice, rather than that of a smooth politician. Now, she is pathetically trying the same technique for similar results.
According to Politico, Chelsea is “angling for attention in the political fray,” particularly from the media, which she carefully sidestepped for the most part during her mother’s two presidential campaigns. The New York Post reported last November that Clinton was being primed for a Congressional run. Her spokeswoman denies it, but many on the left continue to speculate that she will seek office.
As veteran political consultant Hank Sheinkopf explains, “The super-aggressive tweets are a way to create a constituency around her. Particularly in New York, where people don’t like Donald Trump.”
While the tweets represent a noticeable shift in personality, the tone is not unique in the least. Chelsea is building upon the “nasty woman” persona that feminists have attempted to glorify since the 2016 presidential campaign. In the twisted world of feminism, nastier is better.
Nevertheless, Clinton missed her opportunity to gain political traction. She had two easy chances to build a name for herself, but instead decided to play it safe. She spent much of the 2016 campaign staying out of her mom’s way, tweeting about the “elephant poaching crisis growing in Angola” and a water crisis in Peru. Likewise, she was noticeably silent and overly cautious in 2008, when she famously refused to answer the question: “Do you think your dad would be a good ‘first man’ in the White House?” The question came from a 9-year-old “kid reporter” from Scholastic News.
The question remains: Do people even care what she has to say? Not really.
Like her mom, she’s uninspiring even as a feminist figure. The New York Post’s Maureen Callahan notes that Clinton “comes loaded with Clintonian baggage: the greed, the entitlement, and her mother’s greatest flaw — an inability to connect with common people.”
Back in 2013, Clinton admitted, “I wish that I had had one galvanizing ambition that I could reverse engineer my life toward.” As President Trump would likely respond: “SAD!”
Her tone might have changed, but her issues of choice are just as safe and predictable by progressive standards: globalism, LGBTQ issues, and fighting Trump. This may be the reason why her Twitter following remains somewhat dismal despite her high-profile parents. Clinton has had ample opportunity in the past decade to boost her following, yet she only has 1.56M Twitter followers. Ivanka Trump, by contrast, boasts an impressive 3.34M followers, and receives a far greater amount of retweets.
When it comes down to it, the new Chelsea is the same as the old Chelsea – just nastier.
