Hillary Clinton as a straight white man in 2016.
Is it really so hard for you to believe that is the only thing holding her back?
The reason she lost, when it gets down to it, is because people hate her. I mean, we can talk about her strategy and the voters she chose to target and chose to ignore, and it might have been enough to tip an election that was so very close if only her message had been better, but the sheer hatred of her meant this really was not going to be a blowout... even though, really, it should have been.
And if we get into the reasons why people hate her, most of them are pretty elusive and not actually centred on policy or messaging. If it wasn't e-mails or Benghazi, it would be something else. And none of these would have blown up and clung to her if she had been he. So yeah. I believe misogyny and double standards hugely colour the perceptions people have of Hillary Clinton. Without that baggage, I see no reason why "he" wouldn't have won by a large margin despite the flawed messaging.
Send me to the wolves, I guess.
