Noemie Emery: Clinton the klutzby Noemie Emery
| May 08, 2018 12:00 AM
"Chasing Hillary," by Amy Chozick is, though often quite funny, deeply infused with despair.
She calls the Hillary Clinton 2016 presidential campaign "noxious" and "soul-crushing," and it was for two reasons: First, because so many people hated both candidates so much they had problems in choosing the lesser of evils; and second because Clinton found every step of the way an ordeal.
"The Death March to Victory," Chozick called it when Hillary seemed to be winning. "(I)f there was a single unifying force behind her candidacy," she wrote, "it was her obvious desire" to see it all end. Chozick frames the book as Hillary’s struggle to become the FWP, or First Woman President, and sets it in terms of a gender-based story.
But it’s really the case of a much more familiar and often quite tragic story — the tale of the klutz, out of his league in the closest of struggles, and quite often shooting his feet. ...
"She wore her discomfort all over her face," writes Chozick of Clinton, describing her at a steak fry in Iowa, holding a spatula as if a snake had been wound on its handle, with a smile so strained it looked like a grimace, convoying a sense of distress.
Chozick imagines her thinking: "How long do I have to act like I enjoy this?" And "Dear God, what am I doing?" And, "Why the f— am I back in this state?"
She never developed a rationale for her run, as she thought she herself was the reason. ...
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