De ce este atat de urata Hillary Clinton? (Publicat 2020)

Hillary Clinton depune marturie in fata unui comitet din Benghazi, 2015. Credit … Doug Mills / The New York Times

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VANATOAREA IN HILLARY



Campania de patruzeci de ani de distrugere a lui Hillary Clinton



De Michael D’Antonio

In cei aproape patru ani de cand Donald Trump a castigat presedintia, aceia dintre noi care nu au fost in favoarea acestui rezultat particular pot parea uneori sa se fi clasificat in doua tabere la fel de vocale. Primul grup considera ca Hillary Clinton merita o parte semnificativa din vina pentru rezultatul alegerilor din cauza campaniei pe care a condus-o, sau intr-adevar pentru ca a condus deloc, avand in vedere slabiciunile politice vechi de decenii pe care le-a convins cumva Partidul Democrat sa ignore . Al doilea grup considera acest tip de gandire ca fiind antifeminist si anti-establishment si atribuie pierderea lui Clinton aproape in totalitate fortelor externe: misoginie, bani intunecati conservatori, manipulare mass-media, teoreticieni ai conspiratiei – aceleasi forte care au persecutat-o ​​pe nedrept de-a lungul anilor ei in viata publica. Exista, desigur,

D’Antonio, care a castigat un premiu Pulitzer pentru reportaje locale in anii 1980, ca parte a unei echipe Newsday, a realizat in medie aproape o carte pe an in ultimii 20 de ani, pe subiecte variind de la Donald Trump si Mike Pence la cursa spatiala. Este un scriitor fluid, rezumat responsabil si cercetator sarguincios. Acest volum este o istorie cuprinzatoare a modului in care atacurile de dreapta s-au reprodus si s-au transformat de-a lungul deceniilor, precum si intre tehnologii. Banii lui Richard Mellon Scaife cedeaza locul lui Robert Mercer; Newt Gingrich cedeaza proeminenta lui Roger Stone; Fox News creste din exemplul lui Rush Limbaugh; Oportunistii locali din Arkansas care cauta publicitate si bani sunt eclipsati de conspiratii internet.

Dar cartea are cel mai mare succes ca opera in termenii genului ales: apararea lui Clinton. Asa cum acuzarea Clinton – in maniera lui Edward Klein si Peter Schweizer – este o categorie literara recunoscuta (una asupra careia D’Antonio atrage in mod corect atentia critica), la fel si apararea lui Clinton. (Apararea este mai putin data realismului magic; D’Antonio scrie de fapt si jurnalistic. sbagrim.ru ) De exemplu, titlul dramatic al cartii pare sa fie un riff pe cartea lui Joe Conason si Gene Lyons din 2000, „The Hunting of the President: The Ten- Year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton ”, care a incercat sa catalogheze„ vasta conspiratie de dreapta ”, pe care Hillary Clinton a invinuit-o atat de faimos pentru ca a incercat sa-i doboare pe ea si pe sotul ei.

Protestatarii anti-Clinton din New Hampshire, 2015.

• gogosi
• la liga
• stiri arges
• metoclopramid
• descarcare declaratii
• porno romanesc
• vopsea de par
• jamila
• draco malfoy
• stanleybet
• divxfilmeonline
• alibaba
• camere live
• ziua de iasi
• collective
• traduceri
• volkswagen polo
• kraken
• dua lipa
• renault

Credit … Dominick Reuter / Reuters

“The Hunting of Hillary” is dedicated to “the 50.8 percent,” which I first guessed might be the percentage of the popular vote Clinton received in the 2016 election — but as I learned in the acknowledgments section is in fact the percentage of women in the United States. (Before he thanks the usual litany of editors, relatives and friends who helped with the book, D’Antonio spends several paragraphs acknowledging his own white male privilege and the negative reaction of his fellow white men to having that privilege pointed out: “These diversions prevent an empathetic reckoning with both the damage done to women and the many ways in which society is deprived when they are denied the equal opportunity to create and contribute.”)

D’Antonio does a certain amount of feminist-inflected analysis in his text, particularly in the early biographical chapters. (“Powerful women aren’t given much leeway. Express a little emotion — any emotion — and you risk being written off as unserious. Show too little, and you’re a bitch.”) It’s impossible to argue with the substance of this — misogyny is hypermagnetized toward Clinton, not to mention virtually every woman in politics or the public eye — but it’s a comment that’s certainly been made before. And in places, D’Antonio seems a little blinkered from noticing sexism that doesn’t target Clinton herself. He isn’t particularly generous or thoughtful in his assessment of the way the media treated women like Paula Jones or Monica Lewinsky, or Juanita Broaddrick, who made a credible accusation of rape against Bill Clinton that has, in recent years, become the subject of much feminist reconsideration.

Hillary Clinton’s notorious remark that she “could have stayed at home and baked cookies” offended plenty of women who weren’t on the right, but it is similarly glossed over. scriptora.ovh The fact of Bill Clinton’s unfaithfulness is mostly used as a launching point for discussing the right’s exploitation of it. D’Antonio can rarely bring himself to admit the couple have legitimate baggage.

It’s understandable that D’Antonio might shy away from anything that would seem to feed the trolls — more than three years after Clinton’s loss, in the midst of a world-historical pandemic and impending economic ruin, several of the most-shared “news” stories on Facebook in March involved Hillary Clinton’s emails — but there is little room in this book for considering that the Hillary Clinton story, in all its complicated richness and particularity, may not best be presented as a chapter from the Lives of the Martyrs.