By Ben Shapiro
Wednesday, November 02, 2016
Hillary Clinton is perfect.
That, apparently, is the Left’s new line on their
nominee. It was one thing to label her a corrupt old crone when she was running
against newfangled 1930s near-octogenarian Bernie Sanders. It was another thing
to sigh over her foibles when she led Donald Trump by double digits.
But in a close election, Democrats have decided to don
the blinders: Hillary is a saint. And all who oppose her are angels of
darkness.
When Hillary’s e-mail scandal first cropped up, the Left
acknowledged Hillary’s dicey relationship with the truth, but praised rival
Bernie Sanders for his gentlemanly unwillingness to exploit Hillary’s
corruption for political gain. Then, when Sanders finally shuffled off into the
political sunset, they shifted their narrative: Now, Hillary was being targeted
over speculation and innuendo — but she had some of that coming, given her
decision to set up a private e-mail server. When the FBI effectively closed its
original investigation, they could point to FBI director James Comey’s supposed
rectitude as evidence for their theory that Hillary had made a mistake, but she
hadn’t done anything criminal.
Then, like a zombie rising from the dead, E-mailgate
returned: twice as brutal, twice as ugly, and twice as unkillable.
It’s too late in the election cycle to ward off
E-mailgate with some tut-tutting or a wave of the hand. This election is too
close for Democrats to simply acknowledge Hillary’s corruption, then vote for
her in order to stop Trump.
No, they must blind themselves to Hillary’s corruption utterly,
and blind others to it as well. They must spray lye in the eyes of the public
to protect Hillary’s lies. And so the Left have declared their new enemies:
James Comey, and supposed sexism.
Parodic New York
Times columnist Charles Blow led the way with a column titled “Emails,
Genitalia and the FBI.” Blow now alleges that the election is rigged — sound
familiar? — by nefarious forces beyond Hillary’s control. “This election isn’t
in danger of being stolen by Hillary
Clinton,” Blow says, “but in danger of being stolen from her.” And why, pray tell, would James Comey, Hillary’s
heretofore savior, turn on her like a Judas? Because, writes Blow, “this is
just the latest lifeline being thrown to a Republican candidate drowning in his
own ineptitude.” Comey must be
working for the Trumps. Or the Russians. Or somebody.
Senator Harry Reid (D., Nev.), a petrifying political cow
dropping, has accused Comey, in full Joe McCarthy fashion, of the same
malfeasance. “I am writing to inform you that my office has determined that
[your] actions may violate the Hatch Act,” Reid wrote to Comey. “In my
communications with you and other top officials in the national security
community, it has become clear that you possess explosive information about
close ties and coordination between Donald Trump, his top advisors, and the
Russian government…[but] you continue to resist calls to inform the public of
this critical information.” Reid is now approximately five minutes from
brandishing a list of Communists before the cameras, calling for Comey’s
resignation.
And Harry Reid isn’t the only one. Baltimore mayor
Stephanie Rawlings-Blake — a woman who once declared that she would let rioters
destroy her city because it was imperative to give them “room” to express
themselves — called Comey “reckless” and suggested that “he’s under pressure
and he got shook.” Former attorney general Eric Holder, who is still under
contempt of Congress, declared Comey’s actions absolutely deplorable.
Most hilarious, Professor Robin Lakoff of the University
of California, Berkeley, labeled the entire enterprise sexist. “Emailgate is a
bitch hunt,” she wrote at Time.com, “but the target is not Hillary Clinton.
It’s us. The only reason the whole email flap has legs is because the candidate
is female. Can you imagine this happening to a man?”
Lakoff apparently forgot that this re-investigation
exists only began because a man, Anthony Weiner, is under FBI investigation;
she apparently forgot that General David Petraeus was punished for similar
crimes; she apparently neglects that 91 percent of all prison inmates are men,
and that virtually every political scandal in history has targeted a man. But
never mind that: Hillary must be shielded, and if her genitalia will serve the
cause, so be it!
One of the most disappointing aspects of this election
cycle has been the realization by some conservatives that many of our fellow
conservatives want to be Democrats. They want to be Democrats not in terms of
policy, although some Trump fans are indistinguishable from blue dog Democrats.
They want to be Democrats in terms of politician-worship. Too many Republicans
look at how Democrats rally around awful people ranging from Bill Clinton to
Teddy Kennedy, and think, “How can we do that? If we just did that, we’d be able
to elect more Republicans!”
There’s truth to that. Obviously, Democrats are willing
to stand with their candidates, even after those candidates use their interns
as humidors or their female friends as car anchors. But that’s what
distinguishes Republicans from Democrats historically. And even when
Republicans begin to act like Democrats — when we begin to excuse the worst
excesses of our candidates in the name of victory — it doesn’t work all that
well. Many Republicans still agonize over the foibles and evils of Trump. Many
Republicans won’t vote for him. The same doesn’t hold true for Democrats, who
may pretend at skepticism but fall into pure godworship the moment the chips
are down.
Hillary Clinton isn’t a victim. She created a private
server for her own benefit, and she’s been ensnared in her own paranoia and
ambition. The fact that Democrats will cling to her sainthood despite that
obvious truth demonstrates that Democrats cannot be trusted with power. To the
extent that Republicans imitate Democrats, they can’t be trusted with power
either.
Yes, at long last, the Left has pulled its anti-Trump
card: Hillary has a vagina, and is being targeted for that supposedly
debilitating condition.
The attempts to paint E-mailgate as sexism demonstrate
the Left’s blindness to Hillary’s flaws. At least we acknowledge Trump’s faults
in the GOP — or at least a major segment of us do. The Left’s attempts to pawn
off all anti-Hillary scandals as effects of sexism (and Obama’s as effects of
racism) are a basic avoidance maneuver.
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