… the bankrupt Left shrugs, “She may be a crook, but
she’s our crook.”
writes
Victor Davis Hanson as the National Review columnist explains the popularity of Hillary Clinton, in America as well as abroad, in a nutshell.
A Hillary presidency would [have given] the Clintons unprecedented
Peronist-like power, in a manner unlike any couple in American history.
Of course, the Clintons are not only corrupt but cynical as well. They
accept that the progressive media, the foundations, the universities,
the bureaucracies, Hollywood, and Silicon Valley honor power more than
trendy left-wing politics; they well understand that their fans will,
for them, make the necessary adjustments to contextualize Clinton
criminality or amorality. Sexual predations, the demonization of women,
graft, and unequal protection under the law are also of no consequence
to the inbred, conflicted, and morally challenged media – who will
always check in with the Clinton team, like errant dogs who scratch the
backdoor of their master after a periodic runaway.
The Clintons have contempt for the media precisely because the media are
so obsequious. They smile, that, like themselves, the media are easily
manipulated and compromised — to the extent of offering their articles,
before publication, for Clinton approval (as the New York Times’ Mark
Leibovich did; leaking debate questions to the Clinton campaign (as
Donna Brazile did); or saying (as Politico’s chief political
correspondent did), “I have become a hack. . . . Please don’t share or
tell anyone I did this Tell me if I f**ked up anything.” The Clintons
view such sycophants not with affection, but with disdain, given that
they are moochers no better than the Clintons, with the same base
desires, albeit better camouflaged by their pretense of objectivity.
… They have long ago lost any sense of shame — Bill is hourly caricatured
as a sexual predator, and the best that can be said of Hillary’s
character is that the bankrupt Left shrugs, “She may be a crook, but
she’s our crook.”