Trump v. Hillary

I’m back from the dead with a new robotic heart... smash humans!! Anyways, here’s an article for you, puny humans! This article is about an article at Politico, which lists the five problems Trump is causing Hillary. It’s an interesting read. It’s actually a strong psychological takedown of Hillary. Here are the points the article makes and my thoughts thereupon.

1. He’s going there on Bill Clinton.

The article first notes that Hillary has been shocked by Trump’s reaction to her husband. Around New Year, Hillary decided to send in Bill to counter Trump and was shocked when Trump counter-attacked by digging up all of Bill’s old sex scandals.

This made me laugh. For one thing, what in the world made Hillary think that Trump wouldn’t go there? Trump has no boundaries, so expecting a boundary is stupid. What’s more, Trump’s playbook has been to go down the list of talk radio grievances and talking points. Clinton’s sex scandals remains a regular part of that agenda. So what could make Hillary think that Trump would somehow omit those?

The real problem is that Hillary didn’t think that Trump’s rapes and affairs would harm her with women voters. It never dawned on her that claiming the status of “champion of silenced rape victims” would appear hypocritical when her own husband was a rapist who silenced and smeared his victims.

2. He’s beating the same media that’s beating her up.

Hillary views herself as the victim of a media conspiracy and she’s been struggling to free herself from the email scandal in particular. Nothing she has done has worked, and she sees much of this nastiness as being personally directed at her. Indeed, she has licked a lot of media ass, and yet the coverage remains hostile and she doesn’t understand why.

Then along comes Trump. Trump abuses the media and mocks them and he seems to suffer no negative consequences from this. At the same time, Trump is apparently good at schmoozing these same reporters he attacks and they seem to have fallen for him. This upsets Hillary.

The article doesn’t put the final point on this, but essentially, the article’s point is that Hillary is jealous. That’s pathetic. Show me a Republican who has ever been treated fairly or even civilly by the media. They didn’t whine about it, nor did they take it personally because that’s part of the territory. Hillary’s real problem is that she’s so utterly unlikable as a human being that a leftist sycophantic media can’t even swallow their personal distaste for her to stop attacking their ally. This issue alone calls into question whether or not she should even be a candidate. It also suggests that she’s blind to how to deal with others.

3. He’s fun.

The article tries to get away with saying that Hillary’s not as “fun” as Trump while denying the necessary conclusion that accompanies this: that Hillary can’t connect with the public. In fact, the article goes out of its way to say the opposite, like where it says that while Hillary’s support is “deeper and (probably) more durable” than Trump’s, the bigger size and greater energy of Trump’s crowd “speaks to her vulnerabilities” without identifying her vulnerabilities.

The obvious conclusion here is that Trump’s support is much more passionate and he connects with the public better. Said conversely, Hillary struggles to connect even with the portion of the public who want to connect with her. So what you have between Point Two and this point is that Hillary rubs her allies so wrong that they want to undermine her and she is so incapable of connecting with the public that she can’t even excite her fans. And that means that she has an electability problem.

4. He’s dumbing everything down.

This is a good one. Hillary apparently runs a brilliant, intellectual campaign in which “her passion is policy.” Trump is an idiot who doesn’t know policy. But idiot Trump is somehow changing the expectations and making people prefer bombast to wonky brilliance and dignity.

Wrong. The idea that voters want substance died a long time ago, and her own husband was part of that. Bill offered saxophone play, interviews asking if he wore boxers or briefs, and a Hollywood-created campaign that was purely about fluff and image. Hell, he even hired someone to make his jeans look worn. There was no substance. And the fact that Hillary doesn’t understand this suggests that she simply doesn’t understand the public or what they want.

What’s more, the things she’s offered as substance are all well-settled opinions on the left by the time she offers them. That means she’s not some brilliant intellectual, she’s a bandwagoner.

5. He’s a huge distraction.

Finally, according to the article, Hillary doesn’t want to respond to Trump because the best way to deal with Trump is to ignore him... as you always do with trolls. Unfortunately, she’s “paranoid” and she “browbeats her staff when they don’t rush to defend her from attacks.” So every time Trump says anything, the Clinton machine jumps into action and fights back, thereby helping Trump and making him more and more relevant.

The key point here is that Hillary is apparently so insecure that she freaks out when her own people don’t defend her. This reeks of a bunker mentality and it suggests that Hillary doesn’t have the thick skin she needs to succeed in politics.

You know, this article actually offered a devastating assessment of Hillary the candidate, even if the article never quite realized what it was saying. It tells us that she’s paranoid, so thin-skinned she can’t let any insult go unchallenged, undisciplined, takes everything personally, can’t relate to staff, allies or even her fans, and has no clue what they public really wants. Is it any wonder she’s perhaps the worst front-runner ever?