Never gonna learn
Just like a bad rash, Hillary Clinton will not go away.
It is evident that she really does not comprehend why she lost the 2016 presidential election. She has addressed it publicly multiple times, and it still baffles her that Donald Trump won the election.
She blames it on Vladimir Putin. She blames it on Trump. She blames it on “deplorables.” The one person she never blames it on—herself.
When you lose a game, miscalculate something you thought for sure was correct, etc., what do you do? You don’t blame others for your failure. You look back and determine what you did wrong. She has done none of that.
To be fair, last week Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh blamed Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats for smearing his name for “revenge on behalf of the Clintons.” She had reason to respond, and I’m sure she was jumping at the opportunity to get back in the spotlight.
This week, the magazine The Atlantic interviewed Clinton in front of a live audience, just on the heels of the paperback release of her book What Happened, her memoir about the 2016 election.
She spoke at length about Kavanaugh and the 2016 election, never outright denying a Clinton conspiracy theory to stop Kavanaugh’s confirmation.
“Boy, I tell you, they give us a lot of credit,” she said. “It would’ve had to have happened starting 36 years ago, and that seems a stretch even for the vast right-wing conspiracy stories about me.”
With no clear frontrunner to lead the Democratic party in 2020 and Clinton repeatedly taking the spotlight, the left is not doing so hot. Since the 2016 election, they have been in an identity crisis and are stoking the flames of anti-Trump sentiment to get votes. They are not standing for much; they are only standing against Trump and anything associated with him.
Republicans are not perfect and they are not shiny figures by any means, but this political divide is not helping the country.
As you know, we have a midterm election coming up in November. I have a strong feeling, like many others, that the U.S. House of Representatives will flip to Democrat control. Normally, during midterm elections, the party of the current president does not fare well.
Currently, the House has 235 Republicans and 193 Democrats, with seven vacancies. The margin is already fairly slim, and if 2016 taught me anything, I don’t trust the polls.
The House is out of session until after Election Day, a whopping six weeks. Much of that time will be spent campaigning, as Republicans know they are hanging by the skin of their teeth.
The U.S. Senate, however, is in session until the week of Halloween.
I’ve never been one to wish for time to pass more quickly, but I think Congress as a whole could get a lot more done once we know who has the power next year.
Editor’s note: Seymour Klierly writes Washington Whispers for the Journal from inside the Beltway.
