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Today’s Hillary News & Views is my first in a week. Thanks to all of the writers who have joined the series! Great work across the board!
The only downside to me sharing HNV responsibilities is that I’ve had more time to think and reflect on this election. There are a lot of things that are angering me right now, from the disappearing of people of color as the progressive voters powering Clinton to victory, to the myriad of slanders against Clinton and the Democratic Party; from the appropriation of voter suppression by people who simply chose not to register as Democrats to the refusal of the media to confront the rank bigotry and racism that fueled Trump’s nomination as the GOP standard-bearer.
But I want to start with the misogyny. Dear God, the misogyny. I knew it was going to be bad. My conflicted feelings about Clinton running again were mainly about me not wanting her to have to walk through those fires again. That she’s chosen, once again, to be dehumanized and debased in the name of public service and breaking down barriers for women, and gave up her own years of retirement to do it, contradicts every lie about the true nature of her character and commitment to her party and her country.
But she couldn’t have known — none of us could have known — that her final opponent would be the culmination of all of the misogyny she has faced in her entire career.
I wasn’t really a feminist — and thus by definition, wasn’t really progressive — until I began being educated by Melissa McEwan at Shakesville, who continues to challenge my notions of what it means to be an ally, to embrace intersectional progressivism, and to listen when my privilege has indicated to me throughout my life that my role is to speak.
So it’s only appropriate that she is the one who again puts into words that nagging feeling in my gut that screams about perceived injustice.
Melissa McEwan writes for Shakesville:
Donald Trump spent the weekend disgorging vomitous streams of escalating misogyny against Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren. He added disgusting commentary about Clinton's marriage and about Warren's heritage to his usual "woman card" repertoire, while continuing to bray about how he'd be awesome for women.
I am, quite frankly, livid that the election in which we have the best chance of electing the first ever female president is simultaneously an election which is profoundly upsetting for so many women. Who risk being triggered just by following the news.
I am angry that the media barely mention the historic nature of Clinton's candidacy, and uncritically report Trump's misogyny.
And I grieve that Hillary Clinton has spent decades grinding her way through unfathomable amounts of mountainous shit in order to arrive at this moment: On the precipice of the presidency, only to be greeted by a final boss armed with the most vile misogyny.