OPINION:
Hillary Clinton is the perfect political pinata (“Hillary’s vaudeville tour flops,” Web, Dec. 9). After all, she continues to dabble in a rich chaos of distractions (including the present lecture tour) all employed as narcotics to dull the pain of loss and console her fans, a kaleidoscope of excuses ranging from the misogyny motif to an arpeggio of absolution touching on FBI incompetence, Russian interference, gender abandonment, Sanders skullduggery and whatever else may stick to the wall and disguise her inability to discern and give voice to voter concern. Just how long her fans will swallow this skit before indicating growing displeasure with funhouse mirror distortions is anybody’s guess, but flotsam from the SS Clinton shipwreck will continue to float along with attempts at blame deflection.
Those who counsel a crepuscular denouement, a disappearance into the twilight where dusk blurs the sharp edges of defeat, are acting in a friendly fashion. The years since Mrs. Clinton’s calamitous defeat have been an emotionally costly extravaganza of excuse after excuse, heightened by the knowledge that her campaign and its handmaidens at the Democratic National Committee actually financed the unverified dossier which sparked the penultimate Clinton excuse (’Russians did me in’). She will remain a target as long as she keeps making herself one.
PAUL BLOUSTEIN
Cincinnati
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