Hillary Clinton

Much of the problems that America faces today can be laid directly at the feet of Hillary Rodham Clinton and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

In the ultimate ironic twist, it turned out that the final act of this heroine among feminists was to do a great disservice to women by remaining on the bench through the transition to a Republican president. In 2013, Obama himself invited her to the White House when it seemed likely that Democrats would lose control of the Senate, but she again refused to step down. Credit must be given to Justice Breyer for not making the same mistake. That means she lost the other 49 by over a million. Several times during Obama’s presidency progressive attorneys and activists called for Ginsburg to retire so that Obama could appoint a like-minded successor. Less than a year after that, Ginsburg was once again receiving treatment for a recurrence of cancer. I provide that admission because I am about to endure the scorn of my political brethren by speaking ill of two of the party’s beloved icons. While in the hospital a CT scan showed cancerous nodules in her lungs. In 2016, the Democrats anointed Hillary Clinton with its party’s nomination because it was “her turn.” But history tells us that my turn has never been a good enough reason for such an honor. In fact, the last “my turn” candidate to win the presidency before Joe Biden was George H.W. Bush 34 years ago. Sadly, the Democrats chose to ignore this truism and, instead, shamefully stacked the deck in the nominating process to favor their favorite. Conversely, it is often the ones whose turn it isn’t — Carter, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Obama, Trump — whose insurgency carried them to surprising victory.