Major Contributing Factor: Failure to articulate an affirmative policy agenda. You know what Donald Trump would do during his first 100 days: build the wall, mass deportations, ban Muslims, probably suspend the Constitution for some as yet undetermined pretext. What would Hillary Clinton's first 100 days look like? I don't know. And I'm a political junkie. No one else knows either. Here is what she has said, and she hasn't said it very often: "I pledge that in my first 100 days as president, we will make the biggest investment in new good-paying jobs since World War II." What kind of investment? How much? Where? How?
According to The Hill: "she has indicated that her first 100 days would include nominating women for half of her Cabinet positions, investing in renewable energy, setting stricter rules for health insurers and drugmakers, and pushing for greater protections for voting rights." Zzzzzzz. Americans want their president to do two things: boost the economy and keep them safe. Trump owns the national security debate. But she still hasn't told us how she'll put us back to work, get us a raise, or fix the retirement system to account for the big switch from 40-hour-a-week wage labor to self-employment. Her entire campaign boils down to: I'm Not Trump.
Additional Contributing Factors:
A crazy penchant for secrecy and cover-ups that gave us EmailGate.
Unbridled lust for corporate and dictator cash funneled via influence peddling through the Clinton Foundation, up until the last second before she formally declared she was running. Why didn't she give it a rest after 2008?
Incrementalism. It's impossible to get excited about someone who thinks $12 an hour would mark a major increase in the federal minimum wage -- after states and municipalities have already gone to $15. Remember, this is a change year.
She still won't apologize for voting to invade Iraq. Sure, she says she got it wrong. "But Clinton has never explicitly said what, exactly, she did wrong," Scott Beauchamp wrote in The Atlantic. "From Clinton herself, there has been a demand for nuance in discussing her vote, a clarification of her intentions, and plenty of blame heaped on the Bush administration. But without a clear explanation of what her mistake was and how she plans to avoid repeating it, what does an apology actually mean?"
R.I.P.
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