Democrats, it's time for you to dump Hillary Clinton If Democrats want to keep winning elections, it’s time for them to file a restraining order against Clinton.

Christian Schneider | Opinion columnist

If you think about it, being a losing presidential candidate is one of the best jobs in America. No matter what you say, you come off way better than your opponent’s portrayal of you as a bloodthirsty gargoyle. You go on late night talk shows and ham it up with hosts who set you up to be self-deprecating and winsome. People still take you seriously, but you can finally say exactly what you want.

And as an added bonus to all this, you don’t have to actually be president.

Since the 2016 campaign ended, Hillary Clinton has demonstrated herself to be a singularly extraordinary former presidential candidate — “extraordinary” only in the sense that no ex-candidate has ever been worse.

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At a recent conference in Mumbai, India, Clinton further cast aside her presidential façade and told the world what she really thought of “middle America.” She boasted that she had won “the places that are optimistic, diverse, dynamic,” and “moving-forward,” and noted she did best in “places that represent two-thirds of America’s gross domestic product.”

She suggested President Donald Trump’s appeal was mostly to white men who “didn’t like black people getting rights,” who disapproved of “women getting jobs,” and who begrudged Indian-Americans for their success. As a final ingredient to her toxic bouillabaisse, Clinton added that white women often voted for Trump because of “ongoing pressure to vote the way that your husband, your boss, your son, whoever, believes you should.”

If there were a Hall of Fame for irony, Clinton would have it named after her. In accusing weak-minded white women of blindly voting the way men told them to, she was proving exactly why white women were wise not to vote for her. It is a significant reason she has now had to play the role of failed presidential candidate twice.

Set aside, for the moment, the wisdom of airing one’s bitter grievances against the American electorate on foreign soil. The timing of her Rancorpalooza couldn’t have been worse for Democrats, who are actually trying to appeal to those very “deplorables” Clinton clearly reviles.

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Take a place like Michigan, for example, which Clinton would have won if just 0.12% of voters switched their vote from Trump to her. Or Wisconsin, which she would have carried if only 11,400 voters marked “Clinton” instead. Had she overcome either of those infinitesimal margins, suddenly she would have shifted them from her “half-off coupon for marrying your cousin” category to her “forward-moving dynamic utopia” column.

These rust-belt voters are the ones to whom Democrats must ingratiate themselves in the 2018 midterm elections, but they still find themselves the victims of Clinton’s condescension. Any wise Democrat running in the Midwest would wear garlic around their neck to keep Hillary Clinton away from their state.

But her personal horribleness also comes at a bad time for Democrats trying to undermine Trump. At the same time Congressional Democrats are trying to argue the Russians interfered in the 2016 election, Clinton seems dead-set on proving that it was her own acridity that cost her the election. Further, she is pumping oxygen to the jackals at Fox News desperate to thrust her into their nightly headlines. Right now, Donald Trump couldn’t name a better 2020 campaign manager than Hillary Clinton; she’s a human campaign ad for the other guy.

In both 2008 and 2016, America’s voters filed a restraining order against Hillary Clinton. If they want to win future elections, it’s time for Democrats to do the same.

Christian Schneider is a member of USA TODAY's Board of Contributors. Follow him on Twitter: @Schneider_CM.