Hell hath no fury like a woman who won the popular vote yet lost the biggest prize of all: a historic presidency

The Democratic 2016 presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton, has been making some rounds, at June graduations, women's global forums and some such. She makes jokes about walking in the woods and wishing she had flown from the White House. A growing chorus of opinion has sprung up saying she should go gentle into that good night, coming from corners like Vanity Fair and USA Today.

On the contrary. Let's hear from Clinton every day, every move, every outrageous statement and appointment her nemesis makes. Attack him on his own ground, Twitter. In parliamentary systems they have a "shadow" leader in opposition. So here's my motion: Should Clinton should act as our shadow president? I say: Hell, yeah.

With the creative female energy that her candidacy unleashed – look at the new blockbuster movie, "Wonder Woman," and the Tony-award-winning revivals on Broadway – women are not going away on the public stage. Nor should she. As another cultural sign of female rising, The Lily, the 19th century woman's newspaper founded by Amelia Bloomer, is being relaunched.

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Why silence one of the most brilliant, capable women in America in times of trouble, when our neighbors and allies are beginning to hate us for pulling out of the Paris agreements on climate change and threatening to build walls between us? Right now, as more than half the nation disapproves of the outlandish president we have – Donald Trump – we need Clinton as political ballast. Even if her party is scouting fresh blood to enter the 2020 presidential race, Clinton is singular as a senior stateswoman, period. Across party lines, she is the woman of her generation that prepared the hardest and most deserved to reach the plum political office.

Let Clinton's true voice be heard, unfettered by advisers and pollsters. Her circle says she is much more human and likable, even funny, in person than she is in perfectly polished yet somehow distant speeches. With all her hairdos since her political partner Bill Clinton won the presidency in 1992, allow her to let her hair down now. Loosen up, there's nothing left to lose, might be her motto. Hillary, let it be the full, real Hillary this time.

There is another significant advantage. Former FBI Director James Comey, Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania need to be reminded every day of the fateful error of their ways. How they took a match to a burning house divided, known as the United States. Now we have a historic presidency, but in the worst way. Trump, in case you missed it, is tearing down that burning house so he can build a fabulous, amazing new golf course with a gold tower. By the time he's done with us, we the people will be locked out of that club.

The paramount commandment of the FBI is: Don't interfere in elections. The second is: Don't talk about investigations to the press, even when investigations are over, especially if there are no legal actions to take. Comey violated these tenets and had no business calling Clinton "extremely careless" in the email server case, especially publicly, last summer. His public statements about a follow-up investigation came a week before the election, adding up to no wrongdoing. But political harm was done to her for no reason, except for Comey's pious self-promotion. For months, meanwhile, the director kept the investigation into Russian influence on the election secret.

Remember this: Comey was an active member of the Republican Party for years and a political appointee of President George W. Bush. President Barack Obama appointed him FBI director in 2013, a tragic mistake.

Hillary Clinton won the people's vote by about 3 million votes. The anachronistic elitist Electoral College slapped us awake, again after 16 years. The state-based system is the legacy of the rich white male slaveowners led by the clever Virginian James Madison, who colluded with Alexander Hamilton to make the Constitution and nation safe for rich white male Southern slaveowner power. They did a pretty good job, even beyond the Civil War. Women did not win the vote until, wait for it, 1920.

And it was white male suffrage – not only working class, but all walks of life – who made Trump president. His white male base is no secret, but bear in mind that they won over the will of the people. Women of all walks and colors, the entire female electorate, tilted toward Clinton to be the first woman president.