Racist, misogynist, former Obama voters

Bill Clinton once warned his wife not to ignore white voters - now he blames them for her loss

Throughout the 2016 election, Hillary Clinton made it clear that she had no interest in courting white voters. Instead of embracing everyone, Hillary embarked on a plan of “maximum identity politics.” She decided to divide the electorate, pit one group against another, and relegate whites (men in particular) to her infamous “basket of deplorables.” It was a deeply flawed strategy which grossly overestimate her ability to appeal to minority voters. In short, she thought she’d enjoy the same demographic turnout achieved by Barack Obama. For a whole host of reasons - chief among them her lack of charisma and her disastrous trust numbers - that support failed to materialize.

It wasn’t a difficult scenario to envision and, as time passes, we learn of more and more people who warned her of the impending disaster. Heck, as the New York Times reported back in February of last year, former President Bill Clinton was one of those voices. Trump was not the pushover Hillary assumed he was. They had faith that the growing electoral power of black, Hispanic and female voters would deliver a Clinton landslide if he were the Republican nominee. But others, including former President Bill Clinton, dismissed those conclusions as denial. They said that Mr. Trump clearly had a keen sense of the electorate’s mood and that only a concerted campaign portraying him as dangerous and bigoted would win what both Clintons believe will be a close November election. That strategy is beginning to take shape, with groups that support Mrs. Clinton preparing to script and test ads that would portray Mr. Trump as a misogynist and an enemy to the working class whose brash temper would put the nation and the world in grave danger. In fact, the New York Times also reported that Bill Clinton had been urging his wife to target Trump’s key demos for over a year…

Last year, a prominent group of supporters asked Hillary Clinton to address a prestigious St. Patrick’s Day gathering at the University of Notre Dame, an invitation that previous presidential candidates had jumped on. Barack Obama and Joseph R. Biden Jr. had each addressed the group, and former President Bill Clinton was eager for his wife to attend. But Mrs. Clinton’s campaign refused, explaining to the organizers that white Catholics were not the audience she needed to spend time reaching out to ...And she ceded the white working-class voters who backed Mr. Clinton in 1992. Though she would never have won this demographic, her husband insisted that her campaign aides do more to try to cut into Mr. Trump’s support with these voters. They declined, reasoning that she was better off targeting college-educated suburban voters by hitting Mr. Trump on his temperament. Hillary’s arrogance was such that she assumed the world would just fall in line behind her. There was no need to address the concerns of these voters, since they’d come to understand her allegedly obvious superiority. If they didn’t, other demos would make up for their absence. How anyone was foolish enough to buy into this line of thinking is a mystery for the ages. A quick look at Hillary’s history shows that she’s nothing like Barack or Bill. Outside of New York and California, her popularity was always a fallacy. Heck, it’s the very reason she carpet-bagged her way to New York City back in the early 2000’s.

As we now know, Hillary’s glass jaw has been exposed once again. She will never be President. The Democrats are attempting to blame the implosion on anyone other than their failed candidate, and their most recent scapegoat is the very voting bloc they chose to ignore. According to Bill Clinton, “angry white men” cost his wife the election. President-elect Donald Trump “doesn’t know much,” former President Bill Clinton told a local newspaper earlier this month, but “one thing he does know is how to get angry, white men to vote for him.” Clinton spoke to a reporter from The Record-Review, a weekly newspaper serving the towns of Bedford and Pound Ridge, New York, not far from the Clintons’ home in Chappaqua, New York. Yes, these are the same “angry white men” that Bill Clinton suggested Hillary was ignoring to her detriment. They’re the exact same voters for which he wanted her to fight. Only now, they’ve dared to spurn their rightful sovereign, Queen Hillary the 1st. Now, they’re racist monsters or something. This, despite the fact that many of them flipped after previously voting for Barack Obama twice. Oh, and lest you think it’s only racist, misogynist, former Obama-voters who destroyed Hillary’s hopes and dreams, you should know it was also “Russians” and FBI director James Comey. ...On the question of Russian cyberattacks damaging the candidacy of his wife, Hillary Clinton, the former president said “you would need to have a single-digit IQ not to recognize what was going on.” But he blamed FBI Director James Comey for her loss, telling those gathered around him that he had “cost her the election” by announcing with less than two weeks to go before the election that the bureau was examining fresh evidence related to her use of a private email server during her tenure as secretary of state. Hillary is - as always, a perpetual victim. If you thought she’d suddenly take responsibility for herself simply because the election once again revealed her to be a disagreeable source of corruption and malfeasance, you were really kidding yourself. ...Either that, or you’re one of those voters Bill Clinton wanted to court.



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