9/23/2017

The Clinton Book Tour Is Largely Ignoring the Vital Role of Endless War in the 2016 Election

The Clinton Book Tour Is Largely Ignoring the Vital Role of Endless War in the 2016 Election Result

An hourlong interview she sat for with Vox’s Ezra Klein is particularly worthwhile. Clinton, for good reason, harbors a great deal of affection for Klein, which she expressed on multiple occasions during their chat. But Klein nonetheless pressed her on a series of criticisms that have been voiced about her and the Democrats’ stunted political approach, banal policies, status-quo-perpetuating worldview, and cramped aspirations that seem far more plausible as authors of her defeat than the familiar array of villains — Bernie Sanders, Vladimir Putin, Jill Stein, Jim Comey, the New York Times— that she and her most ardent supporters are eager to blame.

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