Blogger Andrew Sullivan announced he was calling it quits at “The Dish” more than a year ago, but in a piece published Friday in New York magazine, he unloaded on Hillary Clinton and her “epic fail” of a campaign with a year’s worth of evidence leading up to her defeat in November.
Andrew Sullivan: Why do Dems feel sorry for Hillary instead of blaming her for putting Trump in the White House? https://t.co/pobzm8iBQ2
— New York Magazine (@NYMag) April 14, 2017
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The hillary brigade is gonna bite Andrew's head off for this one.
— Yankees Suck (@YoungEckersley) April 14, 2017
Sullivan is no fan of Donald Trump by any stretch, but he made it perfectly clear he’s out of patience with those who claim Hillary Clinton’s loss was due to anyone but her, so quit feeling sorry for her, OK?
It wasn’t Clinton’s fault, we’re told. It never is. It was the voters’ — those ungrateful, deplorable know-nothings! Their sexism defeated her (despite a majority of white women voting for Trump). A wave of misogyny defeated her (ditto). James Comey is to blame. Bernie Sanders’s campaign — because it highlighted her enmeshment with Wall Street, her brain-dead interventionism and her rapacious money-grubbing since she left the State Department — was the problem. Millennial feminists were guilty as well, for not seeing what an amazing crusader for their cause this candidate was. And this, of course, is how Clinton sees it as well: She wasn’t responsible for her own campaign — her staffers were.
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In Hillary’s upcoming book, she’ll reportedly place the blame for her loss on the “weaponization of information” from Russia, WikiLeaks, and James Comey, which is very probably what anyone who’d spend money to buy it would expect to see in print.
James Comey, Julian Assange, Putin & the media put SCROTUS in the WH along with sexism, ignorance, & hate. And shame on you.
— Elayne Boosler (@ElayneBoosler) April 15, 2017
Really @NYMag, We have had enough of this crap!!#HillaryClinton lost because of sexism, racism, and #Russia.
— Get Loud Industries (@getloud101) April 14, 2017
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Because false narratives sold by the idiot media who helped her and helped Trump get elected…Because Russia…because ignorance
— Todd Appel (@ToddAppel) April 15, 2017
If only she had smiled more often and left the emails to the men-folk, her second-largest popular-vote might have impressed the Russians.
— squarescape (@squarescape) April 14, 2017
Our out of date, unfair election process kept her out of office. She won by almost 3 million more votes! Blame Hamilton!!
— Marion Marino (@marino6_marino) April 14, 2017
BTFW, HRC was actually qualified and prepared to be President unlike Agent Orange. Iam not convinced she actually lost. #stolenelection
— Lola Wood (@Ldydewood) April 14, 2017
That's it. I'll not read Andrew Sullivan again anytime soon.
— Randy Mayeux (@Randy1116) April 15, 2017
Conservatives certainly found much more merit in Sullivan’s piece, but don’t discount the number of Bernie Sanders supporters out there who are still feeling the burn.
Why did the Dems collude to put up the absolute worst candidate to represent their corrupt party?
— Ken Wickey (@KenWickey) April 14, 2017
So you're blaming the media instead of HRC who was in control of her own actions and knew what she was doing sharing confidential info? Smh.
— Gaurav (@gauravsardesai) April 14, 2017
How bad does a candidate have to be to LOSE to a reality TV star with no political experience?
— Brian Hamilton (@iBrianHamilton) April 15, 2017
She ran the laziest – most entitled campaign I've ever seen. Completely detached from voters. #bernie
— Shitisrigged (@Madkaz2020) April 15, 2017
I don't feel sorry for her I feel sorry for the good Dems who were intimidated from running. Only Bernie had the guts Hillary sabotaged him
— Pamela Malone (@malone_pamwings) April 14, 2017
Could it be as simple as the establishment is pushing the "feel sorry" for her narrative while others know she was a bad candidate?
— Teachers For Bernie (@BerniesTeachers) April 14, 2017
I don't know who y'all are talking to, but around here we agree her campaign sucked and she blew the election, no sympathy 4her, just us now
— ALAN NEILL (@dunwerkin4m) April 14, 2017
To blame her would mean to confront the the obvious flaws of the Democrats, media and the government. They can't afford to do it.
— Emmanuel (@thebluemaverick) April 14, 2017
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