Like I said, he is a very smart guy with plenty of good points, but he has had a unique fixation with Clinton and has indulged in some entirely un-sourced opinions about her the past few years (such as around the Clinton Foundation and her ties to Israel) that are identical to alt-right talking points. He’s a big fan of equating Clinton with the DNC establishment to the point that he uses them interchangeably, which while she is a big part of it she was a very distinct influence from Obama even if they worked together some. She is more hawkish with intervention, disagreed on some aspects of drone use, but also was much more aggressive with diplomacy and managed to get in front of everyone.
Like in the Bo Bergdahl case, she basically lined up his release years before he was without a prisoner exchange but the Department of Defense refused to act on it (for what appears to be political reasons). She was out of office and the guy she had working on it literally died suddenly, and the effort ended there.
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Her loss was absolutely her own fault. She didn’t campaign much if at all in the Rust Belt, was dismissive of the entire left wing, picked Tim Kaine as her running mate, and ran as a competent, boring centrist. Ignoring the fact that a “centrist” in the US is actually far right in the rest of the civilized world, competent boring centrists always lose.
[/quote]I agree. Saying “Glenn Greenwald bias extends past reason with Hillary Clinton” doesn’t mean I don’t think she lost the election on her own merit. I explicitly said losing the election was her fault and Trump ran a better campaign in the post immediately before @Wanderfound’s post. And to @anon15383236’s point, there are a lot of factors and I acknowledge that the loss was so narrow that the bad luck of her campaign alone could have swayed the result.
Even if Clinton was president, her campaign was poorly handled. It’s also a common theme in her political career.
EDIT
Fox News was probably too harsh, but there isn’t a lot of media to compare to that is conservative and coherent.
