Hillary Clinton’s 2016 primary success is in many ways a redemption story, the tale of how a flawed candidate overcame some of her failings.
But the campaign has also underscored that Clinton can’t help being her own worst enemy. New revelations about her private email use at the State Department and her refusal to release transcripts of her highly paid speeches to Wall Street banks plagued her primary fight against Bernie Sanders.
The question now is which Clinton — the rehabilitated policy wonk or the reflexively defensive politician — will win out as she faces perhaps her most unpredictable challenge: Donald Trump.
Clinton’s aides say she’s eager for a bruising, no-holds-barred battle against Trump and a Republican Party that has targeted her for decades.
(AP)
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Key lesson: avoid serious opponents (hint: a Socialist, who isn’t even a Democrat, wasn’t serious). The trick is to raise lots of moneys and have IOUs to cash in, so no one runs against you.