Truth Revolt
September 15, 2017
Writing for the Marie Claire fashion mag online, feminist Jessica Valenti declares, seemingly seriously, that “Hillary Clinton is More of a President Right Now Than Donald Trump Will Ever Be.”
Valenti grudgingly acknowledges that Trump, whom she calls “our racist-in-chief,” did indeed win “the most bizarre campaign in American history,” but still. She lists five ways in which non-President Hillary has her act together in ways that actual-President Trump supposedly does not:
1. “She has concrete policies she can actually elaborate on.” Hillary’s “updated website lists all of the policies she believes in, complete with substantive plans for how they would be executed.” Awesome! Except that those plans will never be executed because she isn’t President.
2. “Unlike Trump, she’s concerned about the future.” “The future of the world is quite literally dependent on what we do about climate change,” Valenti insists. Trump pulled us out of the Paris Agreement, but Hillary has “outlined a plan for undoing the damage we’ve been unleashing on the environment.” Of course, that plan doesn’t matter because Hillary isn’t President.
3. “She focuses on helping the victims of natural disasters as opposed to bragging about how big the storms are.” While Trump cares only about himself, Valenti writes, Hillary “was spreading the word on ways to help victims” of recent hurricanes. Except that Trump was too, and he’s President and Hillary isn’t.
4. “She’s not afraid to call out hate groups.” Hillary “directly named white supremacy” as a hate group and gave sympathy to “all who feel unsafe in their country.” Trump specifically denounced white supremacy too, but the left refuses to acknowledge it because that damages their narrative that Trump is a white supremacist. He’s also President, and Hillary…