In the wake of grumblings from the Far-Left about how President-apparent Hillary Clinton better not stray from the positions she co-opted from Bernie Sanders comes this article “warning” NYTimes readers that a Clinton presidency comes with its own perils.
The Left is translating Clinton’s lead in the polls and Trump’s most recent troubles (the “vulgar” controversy and the molestation accusations) as a presumption of victory, and is now looking to declare and delineate what Clinton’s should and should not do.
It’s all quite ironic. The Left has elevated a cheat and a liar to its fore and, by tolerating, accepting, excusing, and defending her cheating ways and her lies, vindicated the choice to cheat and lie in pursuit of the White House. Now, they want to hold her accountable, and are demanding that she not renege on her promises to them, and that she actually be what they’ve been projecting her to be. They’re doing so by acknowledging the risk of her becoming her true self, i.e. an archetypical establishmentarian, unrepentant insider, and comtemptuous autocrat, and warning her and hers that this won’t be acceptable.
Cry me a river. Leopards don’t change their spots, and scorpions sting frogs. Clinton is who she is, her strategies and tactics have worked so far, and she’s got no reason to become a different person now that she is thisclose to the pinnacle. While she’s not yet elected, we’re looking at a Left that has presumed she will be and is now scrambling after the realization that she may not fulfill their dreams and desires.
What’s going to happen when she doesn’t fulfill all the projected wishes? What is the Left going to do when she reverts to form? What reason does she have to heed the Bernie voters’ and the NYTimes’ admonitions?
People are tribal, and Democrats, being statist at heart, are, in general, more tribal than non-Democrats. They’ll complain, they’ll threaten, but in the end they’ll fall back to the same “the Republicans are SO horrible that we have to support this woman who lied to us, who cheated our preferred candidate in the primaries, and who has no reason to actually do what we want her to do.”
All these early grumblings are foretellings of the impotent rage the Left will share within its safe spaces and echo chambers over the course of a Clinton presidency. It’s more likely that she’ll continue her warmongering, her cozy relationship with Wall Street, her Beltway associations and her establishmentarian triangulating than become the “true” liberal the Left wishes her to be. She’ll chase certain liberal dreams, including gun control, and she’ll defend certain liberal “musts,” like big-government everything, but she’s going to disappoint them, and they know it.
Come election day, the liberals who hold their noses to elect Clinton are very likely going to get their way. Afterwards, they’ll continue to get it, as H.L. Mencken quipped, “good and hard.”
Their solace will be “But Trump would have been worse!” I’m looking forward to the schadenfreude.
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