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Well, this was inevitable: Hillary Clinton will be running for president in 2072 when she is 125 years old and her head is being kept alive in a bubbling vat of nutrients, so why not 2024? While touting a third-times-a-charm run for the twice-failed presidential candidate, however, CNN’s appalling Chris Cillizza seemed a bit lukewarm to the idea. He led off his pitch by attributing it to someone else: “In the immediate aftermath of the Supreme Court’s monumental decision to overturn Roe v Wade, conservative writer John Ellis took to the internet to make a provocative case: It was time for Hillary Clinton to make a(nother) political comeback.” Well, sometimes it’s time for cardiac catheterization or root canal, so theoretically there could be a time for a Hillary comeback as well.
Cillizza quoted Ellis’s writing: “Now is her moment. The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade creates the opening for Hillary Clinton to get out of stealth mode and start down the path toward declaring her candidacy for the 2024 Democratic presidential nomination.” Cillizza didn’t mention it, but Ellis subtitled his article “Furies unleashed.” He could even have said “harpies.”
Digging deeper, Cillizza noted that Ellis’ argument was “centered on the ideas that 1) President Joe Biden, who will be 82 shortly after the 2024 election, is simply too old to run again (Ellis is far from the only person making that case) and 2) The Democratic bench is not terribly strong.”
Could there possibly be weaker arguments for a new round of Hillary posturing and pandering and pretending to be a warm, compassionate human being with a purse full of hot sauce? Hillary is hardly the youthful alternative, brimming with Kennedyesque vigah, to the superannuated Democrat establishment that Old Joe Biden represents. Biden will be 82 shortly after the 2024 election, and Hillary will be 77 shortly before it. Oh, yeah, young Hillary is going to be out there playing touch football on the lawn at Hyannisport, all right. And while Biden does represent a Democrat establishment that has long passed its prime but is so corrupt, opportunistic, and greedy that it clings to power at all costs, Hillary is hardly a fresh-faced outsider. She is just as much a part of that establishment as Old Joe is, if not even more so.
But Cillizza and Ellis are right about one thing: the Democrat bench is terribly weak. If Old Joe is still on this earth in 2024, and the country is not entirely a smoking ruin, and the Democrats decide to go with him again, it will be in large part because Kamala Harris is a cackling nonentity and there is simply no one else. If Hillary reemerges from the murky depths and dusts off her own cackle, it will be attributable to this lack of credible challengers within the party.
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