Saturn devours his young: President Trump | Salvage
In her own strategising, in short, if Hillary Clinton mastered anything
in this election, it was the old Third Way technique of demoralising her
voters. Beginning in the primary contest, she managed expectations down
to close to zero, scolding Sanders supporters that universal healthcare
was ‘never going to happen’. She barely even had the grace to be
red-faced about her convivial relationship with Goldman Sachs and Wall
Street. Far from embarrassed, she was proud of her plaudits from Henry
Kissinger, Laura Bush and Dick Cheney. Meanwhile, her team noised it
abroad that she would be looking to privatise social security, and to
re-arm liberal imperialism after Obama’s ‘Realist’ detour. And, while
position-jockeying to get on the right side of bien-pensant liberalism –
dropping her old opposition to gay marriage, rowing back on locking up
those ‘superpredators’ she once warned us about – she deliberately
focused her campaign on wooing suburban Republicans. To little overall
effect...
