During this campaign we’ve seen the big banks defended, attempts at universal healthcare deemed a waste of time, and free college tuition called an attack on HBCUs.

Clinton supporters have pushed back against criticism of the disastrous crime bill of the 1990’s and Hillary’s use of the racist pseudo-science term “superpredator” during her advocacy for the bill. Critiques of Clinton’s Republican-like stances on TPP, fracking, and the death penalty have been condemned as “purity tests.”

The very idea of systemic political corruption — as progressives understood it when they railed against the Citizen’s United ruling — apparently no longer exists outside the bounds of literal quid pro quo bribery, because that’s the only way to justify the millions Clinton has made from giving private speeches to Wall Street.

Clinton and Kissinger

The worst of this has been the justifications for Hillary’s disastrous foreign policy positions. It’s been argued that Hillary’s vote for the Iraq War was not actually a vote for the Iraq War. Hillary’s praise of war criminal Henry Kissinger was defended while Sander’s opposition to right wing death squads was attacked.

We can almost be thankful that many of Clinton’s foreign policy positions— her orchestration of the disastrous intervention in Libya, her call to deport children back to countries where they faced torture and death at the hands of drug cartels, the arms deals she approved to human rights violators that donated to her foundation—are so egregious that her supporters have simply ignored them.