“They left me because they just couldn’t take a risk on me, because as a woman, I’m supposed to be perfect,” Clinton said in an interview with The New Times, published Saturday. “They were willing to take a risk on [former President Trump] — who had a long list of, let’s call them flaws, to illustrate his imperfection — because he was a man, and they could envision a man as president and commander in chief.”
“Is there a double standard? One hundred percent times 100 percent,” Tracy Sefl, a Democratic consultant and Clinton surrogate, said at the time. “And God forbid if she coughs.”
In the interview with the Times, Clinton also went after members of her party for what she said was a long-term failure in not shoring up abortion rights. She argued that Democrats didn’t fully estimate the power of anti-abortion powers until most of them were “taken by surprise” with the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022, which ended the federal right to abortion access.
She got more votes than Trump. She lost because she didn’t get the votes where she needed them to win. Sure seems to me like a strategic failure rather than sexism. Call me a chauvinist if you want, but she should shut the fuck up.
True, she seems to like to blame everyone else for her failures, except herself.
They still end up failing to the top of our gov’t’s most highest positions, while keeping the status quo and making maximum profits!
Yep, she campaigned in Texas instead of the swing states she needed to win.
Both can be true. While she certainly made many mistakes, sexism was definitely a factor.