Sorry, But Clinton’s Inevitably Is Not a Problem

[DonViejo]

Posted in the Hillary Clinton Group

By Ana Marie Cox

And how exactly is it a bad thing for her or Democrats that Hillary Clinton has the nomination all but sewn up? News flash: It’s not.

Pundits can’t stop snatching Hillary's defeat from the jaws of victory, insisting that her commanding lead in the polls is itself a problem. A Vox piece last week is typical: “Hillary Clinton’s uncontested nomination is dangerous for her and her party,” but I’d like to give points to Politico for finding a slightly different angle, “All-too-ready for Hillary,” which argues that Clinton’s real problem is all the really talented people who want to work for her. Clinton may not win, but blaming a loss on her popularity (or overly talented staff!) exposes the weak, desperate illogic of a pundit class that is mostly just filling time and news cycle holes until anything real happens.

An “air of inevitability” should be a good thing, right? It’s in the superhero toolbox, right next to the cloak of invisibility and hammer of invincibility. So why do journalists treat it like kryptonite?

On some level, it may be due to amorphous ill will toward Clinton herself, whether motivated by generic sexism or a more specific dislike of her notoriously prickly staff. (The “which came first” between a prickly staff and the negative coverage is a chicken-and-egg-meets-Heisenberg Principle problem whose solution deserves a Nobel in both science and peace for the person who solves it.)

“Of course she’s going to win the primary, and that’s great for her!” is also the coldest take one could imagine, the kind of “another plane landed today” non-news that political reporters believe in their bones to be inherently uninteresting—as if the point of news was to be interesting, rather than factually correct.

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[BlueCaliDem]

1. I don't see it as a problem, either. I see it as a positive for the Democratic Party, the SCOTUS,

the furthering of Obama policies, and the locking-out of Republicans from the White House for the foreseeable future.

[Thinkingabout]

2. The GOP has already gone on an Alaskan cruise to find a way to beat Clinton.

One of the ways they may have a chance is to keep Hillary out of the General Election. We know there will be lots of hatred towards Hillary, its the hate from the GOP.

[William769]

3. Great! Thanks.

It’s in the superhero toolbox, right next to the cloak of invisibility and hammer of invincibility.