There is an Indiana Jones–style, “It had to be snakes” inevitability about the fact that Donald Trump is Clinton’s Republican rival. Of course Hillary Clinton is going to have to run against a man who seems both to embody and have attracted the support of everything male, white, and angry about the ascension of women and black people in America. Trump is the antithesis of Clinton’s pragmatism, her careful nature, her capacious understanding of American civic and government institutions and how to maneuver within them. Of course a woman who wants to land in the Oval Office is going to have to get past an aggressive reality-TV star who has literally talked about his penis in a debate.
I've said this before myself, in much less eloquent and insightful terms. My crude analogy was that it's as if the GOP had nominated David Duke to run against Barack Obama.
Please read Traister's profile even if you loathe Clinton. It's a remarkable piece of journalism and eye opening in a number ways.
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If you read the article you'll know why I used that pic.
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