Hillary Clinton vs. Donald Trump 2024 — yep, life has become a horror movie
We are officially in the horror movie where the monster never dies, the virus never ends and our next election sees Hillary Clinton vs. Donald Trump.
Yes, the two most polarizing presidential nominees of modern times refuse to go away.
Clinton and Trump are more alike than they realize. Namely, they each live in a reality of their own making.
Trump continues to insist that the 2020 election was stolen. Hillary believes that she won in 2016. “What I was doing was working,” she told New York magazine in 2017. Of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump, she said, “I beat both of them.”
Back then, I called Hillary the Norma Desmond of American politics, ever-ready for her close-up, white-knuckling her grip on a scene that long ago rejected her. As she refused to rule out 2020, party leaders were vocal about moving on.
Joe Biden: “I never thought she was a great candidate.”
Chuck Schumer: “When you lose to someone who has 40 percent popularity, you don’t blame other things . . . you blame yourself.”
Biden’s been hovering at the 40 percent mark for a while now. Kamala is an unmitigated disaster. The COVID fumbling, a foreign policy dominated by the botched Afghanistan withdrawal, soaring inflation — well, who else do the Dems have lined up?
Beto? AOC? Mayor Pete?
It’s a disgrace that neither party properly grooms its talent nor welcomes generational change. A coven of power-crazed Baby Boomers have a stranglehold on our national politics — it’s how we got Biden, marketed to us as safe and sane rather than the inside-the-Beltway-hack and doddering Grandpa he is.
Truly, the Dems couldn’t have set a better stage for the reemergence of Donald Trump. The minute he lost, we all knew he’d run again — his ego won’t allow defeat.
Neither will Hillary’s. In December, as part of her MasterClass episode (not to ask the obvious, but shouldn’t one be a master in their class to teach one of these?) Hillary delivered the victory speech she’d written for Election Night 2016.
“It’s the kind of humiliating growth exercise you might spy through the keyhole of a therapist’s office,” said the formerly slavish New York Times. “It feels as if she is being held hostage by the past, compelled to relive her defeat again and again.”
What else should we expect?
In the wake of her loss, Clinton asked us to feel sorry for her — rather than the other way around.
Here was a candidate handed the nomination by her party, which flushed out her most serious primary contender, Bernie Sanders, behind the scenes.
If she couldn’t beat a former reality star with that assist — plus the $150 million war chest, the backing of Beyoncé and Bruce and Oprah, the media industrial complex not just firmly behind her but rabidly anti-Trump — what makes anyone, anywhere, convinced she could pull it off in 2024? Trump’s run is a given. So is Hillary’s inevitable loss.
The good news? As we’re learning, even the most stubborn mutations weaken over time.
