How Can We Miss Her If She Won't Go Away?

Noemie Emery tells of Hillary Clinton’s long goodbye:

“Dems will put up with a scoundrel, but not a loser,” the editors of this paper wrote earlier this year. They cited the undying support of Bill Clinton, who, to be fair, while he was in office never did anything like this. But the problem is that Hillary is becoming a loser because she’s a scoundrel, as her lies and the continued exposure of them seem to come more and more to the fore.

Her ratings took a predictable dip in 2013 when she left her old role as diplomat for the tumult of politics. Another dip came in 2014 when her book launch fizzled and she claimed to have been “dead broke” after the White House. But the holes in the hull were punched by the Clinton Foundation and then the emails, which made her approval ratings slide underwater and saw her fall behind many GOP rivals in many important swing states.

The Clintons survived the scandals and wars of the ’90s because in the ’90s there was a lot less cable TV and Internet and no Twitter or social media. In the ’90s, they controlled the White House and party and now they do not. In the ’90s, they were in office, not merely seeking it; and Bill was a skilled and adroit politician, which Hillary is not.

Comeuppance has been a long time coming for a Clinton, any Clinton — but even in your most schadenfreutastical moments should you allow yourself to think she can’t wriggle her way out just one last time.

Or at least, that’s what I keep reminding myself, just in case.