How will Hillary Clinton be remembered in 2067?
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Question: How will Hillary Clinton be remembered?
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Loved as a matyr
 
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Begrudging respect
 
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Disliked, but people hate Trump more
 
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« on: May 12, 2017, 05:30:30 PM »

Considering that Hillary was one of the most hated presidential candidates, and still remains hated by large swaths of the population after the election, what will people think of her 50 years from now?

Will her popularity return to her high point as Secretary as State, when she was consistently scoring well on opinion polls? Will she be remembered as a matyr or a failure for her campaign against Trump? Will she become one of the most hated politicians in the American psyche, more so than Trump, Nixon, Hoover and Buchanan, with enemies from the left and right reliving the campaign from 50 years ago?
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« Reply #1 on: May 12, 2017, 05:38:15 PM »

she'll be a not very hard answer to a trivia question on Jeopardy!
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« Reply #2 on: May 12, 2017, 05:40:16 PM »

Probably similar to Hubert Humphrey. A flawed candidate who ran a flawed campaign and lost a winnable election, but who would've been better than the guy who actually won.
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« Reply #3 on: May 12, 2017, 05:41:03 PM »

Who remembers Losers?
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« Reply #4 on: May 12, 2017, 05:44:56 PM »

A Gerald Ford-like character.
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« Reply #5 on: May 12, 2017, 05:46:00 PM »

Madame President.  If not that, Madame Secretary.
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« Reply #6 on: May 12, 2017, 05:46:17 PM »

As the modern day Jesus who was betrayed by Judas (Bernie), sacrificed herself to Pontius Pilate (Trump) because of Satan (Putin)'s manipulation. Except for in the notoriously backwards and racist state of West Virginia, in which the inbred hicks will have no memory of her whatsoever, but would most likely hate her for not being a straight white male.
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« Reply #7 on: May 12, 2017, 05:53:35 PM »

How she is likely to be remembered  in 2067:

As the the first female candidate for President, who set the stage for [First Female President]

As the person who failed to stop Trump.

Her unique position as President Bill Clinton's wife running for President may or may not be considered positively, depending on whether or not political dynasties are in vogue.

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« Reply #8 on: May 12, 2017, 06:00:49 PM »

History is going to be very very unkind to her.
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« Reply #9 on: May 12, 2017, 06:33:01 PM »

Apathy. Which is really all she deserves.
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« Reply #10 on: May 12, 2017, 06:35:04 PM »

How she is likely to be remembered  in 2067:

As the the first female candidate for President, who set the stage for [First Female President]

As the person who failed to stop Trump.

Her unique position as President Bill Clinton's wife running for President may or may not be considered positively, depending on whether or not political dynasties are in vogue.



Basically this. She'll get a footnote in the history books and some people will look back at her as a pathfinder. Those who are more well versed in history will not.
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« Reply #11 on: May 12, 2017, 06:36:14 PM »

Enabler.
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« Reply #12 on: May 12, 2017, 06:37:20 PM »

She'll be remembered as the trivia answer to "first woman nominated by major party". (She is not the first woman to win a primary contest -- that would be Shirley Chisholm). Among history nerds, she'll be remembered as an ambitious First Lady-turned-politician, a bad Secretary of State, and in the list of politicians who won the popular vote but lost the Electoral College.

How Hubert Humphrey is remembered today is a good equivalent, actually, though Hillary will probably be slightly more notorious on account of the first-woman thing.
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« Reply #13 on: May 12, 2017, 06:44:59 PM »

Former first lady who became the first female presidential nominee of a major party...

As far as the options presented here are concerned... I'll go with no. 2.
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« Reply #14 on: May 12, 2017, 06:45:23 PM »

If history returns to its track of the fourteenth to twentieth centuries, she'll be remembered as the martyr who unveiled the depths of misogyny at the core of American society, tearing away a pathetic facade. If history goes as I think it will, she'll be remembered as a Jezebel figure, both the Great Satan, and a pitiful personification of America's nadir.
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« Reply #15 on: May 12, 2017, 07:00:11 PM »

By 2067, I think America will have quite a lot of powerful women in politics, whether they be as Presidents, Secretaries of State, Speakers of the House, Senate Majority Leaders.  I think she'll be remembered much more kindly than it said here because time tends to be kinder to people.  I don't know if she'll be viewed as important of a figure as she is today actually because the more women that are presidential candidates and WIN, the more she'll be seen as a Geraldine Ferraro.

Donald Trump, on the other hand, will be looked at as a curiosity - How in the heck did people vote for that guy? - and I really think he'll be forgotten as a one-term President that did not have any positive accomplishments.  (I also don't think he's going to be re-elected in 2020.)
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« Reply #16 on: May 12, 2017, 07:01:33 PM »

Other than those who were alive for the past twenty-odd years?

I suppose historians and politicos will know her as a presidential spouse, a State Secretary with a handful of scandals and the candidate who managed to lose to Trump. As for everyone else:

Apathy. Which is really all she deserves.
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« Reply #17 on: May 12, 2017, 07:02:59 PM »

Whom is this Hillary Clinton?
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« Reply #18 on: May 12, 2017, 07:46:40 PM »


Wait a minute!!!

Hillary is not done yet.

Don't put a warm body in the grave just yet.

Geez...
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« Reply #19 on: May 12, 2017, 08:16:12 PM »

Probably similar to Hubert Humphrey. A flawed candidate who ran a flawed campaign and lost a winnable election, but who would've been better than the guy who actually won.
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« Reply #20 on: May 12, 2017, 08:36:30 PM »

Probably similar to Hubert Humphrey. A flawed candidate who ran a flawed campaign and lost a winnable election, but who would've been better than the guy who actually won.
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« Reply #21 on: May 12, 2017, 09:27:35 PM »

"Random Senator who had a strange fascination with becoming president even though the country hated her."
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