Thirty months ago, in June 2016, Hillary Clinton was the presumptive nominee of the US Democratic Party for the 2016 presidential election. Poll after poll declared that she would be President of the United States before she was even formally announced as her party's nominee. As expected, she became the party nominee, beating Bernie Sanders, and from there on, nearly every journalist and political pundit proclaimed her triumph over Trump.
To affirm her "victory", she appeared with celebrities, hoping that her association with rappers, actors, athletes, late-night hosts and reality TV stars might convince America's approximately 69 million Millenials to vote for her. From Ben Affleck to Henry Zebrowski, via LeBron James and Bill Maher, thousands of celebrities endorsed Clinton's presidential campaign, making certain that Hillary would win in a historic landslide. November would see bigotry and stagnation, the values that Clinton's campaign attached to Trump, defeated.
But when November 8th, Election Day, rolled around, the American people told a different story. It can be argued that Clinton lost because of an outdated electoral system that values the rural citizens over urban citizens, or that Moscow was responsible, or that sexism was responsible for Clinton's failure. Whatever excuse you make, it cannot be disputed that Donald J. Trump is the President of the United States.
Clinton ignored the American people; she ignored the farmers of Iowa, the dairy workers of Wisconsin and the miners of West Virginia. She neglected everyone but her friends in DC, Hollywood, Silicon Valley and on Wall Street. In public, she claimed that she would rein in the power of Wall Street; but in private, she accepted over USD 1.1 million in campaign money from JP Morgan and Bank of America alone. She has dwelled amongst the Political Establishment since the early 1980s when she entered the public eye as First Lady of Arkansas. She continued to rub shoulders with the DC Elite as she became First Lady of the United States in 1993. From there on she moved both within the metaphoric range of Wall Street (she could now be used as a tool to enact policy) and the geographical range (she was a United States Senator for New York). She sacrificed the lives of brave Americans in Libya, before deciding that her illustrious career of incompetence and corruption made her qualified enough to be President of the United States.
As opposed to popular belief, Clinton's loss to Trump should have been expected. Many thought that his plethora of controversial statements and lewd comments towards women might have hindered his election prospects, but Trump never attempted to run for the presidency as the socially conservative. The American media spent so much time covering Trump, attempting to drag his name through the mud, they gave him nearly USD 2 billion in free media coverage, twice that of Hillary Clinton. Trump was the more widely talked about candidate throughout the election. In the run-up to the election, Google Trends reports that in the run-up to the election, Trump's name was in far more search results, showing that Trump made himself a public figure, whereas Hillary assumed that her political experience gave her the permission to not visit Wisconsin on the campaign trail.
Hillary Clinton's arrogance was ultimately her demise as she lost the state in the election.
In retrospect, it was obvious that Hillary Clinton was immensely unpopular. While Trump was inspiring swathes of unemployed Americans with the hope of an increase in jobs, Clinton was telling her younger voters to "Pokemon Go to the polls."
While she pretended to be a political outsider, Trump was busy being the political outsider. Hillary Clinton, the paragon of the Establishment politician, the Wall Street puppet, the pompous presidential nominee, was destined to fail.
To affirm her "victory", she appeared with celebrities, hoping that her association with rappers, actors, athletes, late-night hosts and reality TV stars might convince America's approximately 69 million Millenials to vote for her. From Ben Affleck to Henry Zebrowski, via LeBron James and Bill Maher, thousands of celebrities endorsed Clinton's presidential campaign, making certain that Hillary would win in a historic landslide. November would see bigotry and stagnation, the values that Clinton's campaign attached to Trump, defeated.
But when November 8th, Election Day, rolled around, the American people told a different story. It can be argued that Clinton lost because of an outdated electoral system that values the rural citizens over urban citizens, or that Moscow was responsible, or that sexism was responsible for Clinton's failure. Whatever excuse you make, it cannot be disputed that Donald J. Trump is the President of the United States.
Clinton ignored the American people; she ignored the farmers of Iowa, the dairy workers of Wisconsin and the miners of West Virginia. She neglected everyone but her friends in DC, Hollywood, Silicon Valley and on Wall Street. In public, she claimed that she would rein in the power of Wall Street; but in private, she accepted over USD 1.1 million in campaign money from JP Morgan and Bank of America alone. She has dwelled amongst the Political Establishment since the early 1980s when she entered the public eye as First Lady of Arkansas. She continued to rub shoulders with the DC Elite as she became First Lady of the United States in 1993. From there on she moved both within the metaphoric range of Wall Street (she could now be used as a tool to enact policy) and the geographical range (she was a United States Senator for New York). She sacrificed the lives of brave Americans in Libya, before deciding that her illustrious career of incompetence and corruption made her qualified enough to be President of the United States.
As opposed to popular belief, Clinton's loss to Trump should have been expected. Many thought that his plethora of controversial statements and lewd comments towards women might have hindered his election prospects, but Trump never attempted to run for the presidency as the socially conservative. The American media spent so much time covering Trump, attempting to drag his name through the mud, they gave him nearly USD 2 billion in free media coverage, twice that of Hillary Clinton. Trump was the more widely talked about candidate throughout the election. In the run-up to the election, Google Trends reports that in the run-up to the election, Trump's name was in far more search results, showing that Trump made himself a public figure, whereas Hillary assumed that her political experience gave her the permission to not visit Wisconsin on the campaign trail.
Hillary Clinton's arrogance was ultimately her demise as she lost the state in the election.
In retrospect, it was obvious that Hillary Clinton was immensely unpopular. While Trump was inspiring swathes of unemployed Americans with the hope of an increase in jobs, Clinton was telling her younger voters to "Pokemon Go to the polls."
While she pretended to be a political outsider, Trump was busy being the political outsider. Hillary Clinton, the paragon of the Establishment politician, the Wall Street puppet, the pompous presidential nominee, was destined to fail.
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