• conditional_soup@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    I know there’s this narrative about “Trump can’t handle strong women”, like these folks forgot about 2016. Hillary is a strong woman. I don’t align with her much, I wasn’t jazzed to vote for her in 16, but I’ll not pretend that she isn’t and wasn’t a strong woman. Being a strong woman didn’t save Hillary, and it won’t automatically give Kamala the upper hand. Kamala needs to meet Trump in the shit fight and kick him in the diaper.

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      3 months ago

      Yup. Unfortunately, what sank Hillary was the fact that she was portrayed as unlikable. It worked wonder, as we know.

      She had a commanding voice and the demeanor. But unfortunately 2016 was very different from 2024, and she tried to “play by the rules” when the other guy was a piece of shit from the get go. If she knew what we know today, the debates would be very different. I could see Hillary using a very condescending tone on Trump (“Oh, Donald, stop with your weird attacks”), and maybe it could have worked.