She’s back

In other political news, Hillary Clinton has decided that it is time for her to start making public speeches again. While Hillary certainly is free to address a crowd if she so chooses, I’m somewhat surprised that anyone on the political left would want to be seen with her or be interested in what she has to say. To put it bluntly, Hillary has now suffered two major presidential election defeats—the first one being in the 2008 Democratic primaries where she lost to Barak Obama, and the second, and much more humiliating one, being the loss to Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election. As I said last year in the aftermath of the election, the Hillary Clinton brand is so toxic that she couldn’t beat a clueless populist demagogue who alienated potential voters and regularly embarrassed his own supporters. I don’t think Hillary is doing her party any favors by returning to the public spotlight, but then again the Clintons are still a powerful force within the Democratic Party, so I suppose there’s no way they could get rid of her even if they wanted to. Perhaps the path forward for the Democrats is to just allow Hillary to talk, but quietly distance themselves from her.