Dowd writes: "Hillary believed that there was an implicit understanding with the sisters of the world that now was the time to come back home and vote for a woman. This attitude intensified the unappetizing solipsistic subtext of her campaign, which is 'What is Hillary owed?' It turned out that female voters seem to be looking at Hillary as a candidate rather than as a historical imperative. And she's coming up drastically short on trustworthiness."
Young women at a Bernie Sanders rally in New Hampshire. (photo: Todd Heisler/NYT)
When Hillary Clinton Killed Feminism
15 February 16
he Clinton campaign is shellshocked over the wholesale rejection of Hillary by young women, younger versions of herself who do not relate to her.
Hillary’s coronation was predicated on a conviction that has just gone up in smoke. The Clintons felt that Barack Obama had presumptuously snatched what was rightfully hers in 2008, gliding past her with his pretty words to make history before she could.
So this time, the Clintons assumed, the women who had deserted Hillary for Barack, in Congress and in the country, owed her. Democrats would want to knock down that second barrier.
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