The last thing Hillary Clinton should have done after her stunning loss to Donald Trump was to write a book.

Naturally, that is exactly what she did. (Maybe she wouldn’t have been such a great president, after all.)

She was angry, bitter, stunned and emotional. You know who writes stuff down when he’s angry, bitter, stunned and emotional?

TRUMP.

Tell you anything?

Clinton should've been better than this

Clinton should have been better than that. She should have waited. Allowed more time to pass. Much more. Perhaps forever. But since she wasn’t busy presidenting, Clinton took up writing.

That’s too bad.

She had every right to do so, of course.

But while the literary exercise might have been therapeutic for her, it won't win her many friends or admirers. Not based on excerpts of her book, “What Happened,” which have leaked out.

She writes in the introduction, “In the past, for reasons I try to explain, I’ve often felt I had to be careful in public, like I was up on a wire without a net. Now I’m letting my guard down.”

Those who’ve seen the book say that while Clinton accepts responsibility for her election loss, she also takes the opportunity to settle some old scores. She takes shots at Sen. Bernie Sanders, her primary challenger, Vice President Joe Biden, and, of course, former FBI director James Comey.

And Trump.

She was clueless, Trump wasn't

In one quoted excerpt she writes, "I think it's fair to say that I didn't realize how quickly the ground was shifting under all our feet. I was running a traditional presidential campaign with carefully thought-out policies and painstakingly built coalitions, while Trump was running a reality TV show that expertly and relentlessly stoked Americans' anger and resentment."

She's criticizing Trump’s ugly campaign, but Clinton also is admitting that he understood a considerable portion of the electorate better than she did. He tapped into something she and her campaign staff didn’t recognize.

(And neither did most of us in the media.)

And while Clinton won the popular vote by nearly 3 million votes – more than any losing presidential candidate – she didn’t campaign strategically well enough to win the electoral college.

Ballgame.

We already know what happened

After that she disappeared to write her book, and we were left to deal with you-know-who.

Clinton spent the last eight months living in the land of hypotheticals, while the rest of us have had to deal with reality.

She’s had the luxury to ask herself “What if?”

We’ve been stuck, day after day, week after week, month after month, asking ourselves, “What the …?”

The title of Clinton’s book doesn’t have a question mark. It’s just “What Happened.”

That's because there is no need for a question mark. We all know what happened.

She lost.

Meh.

Anyone looking for a written examination of the last election that might actually alter the outcome will have to wait for the report of special counsel Robert Mueller.

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