http://nypost.com/2016/05/18/hillary-is-running-a-painfully-stupid-campaign/Opinion
Hillary is running a painfully stupid campaign
By John Podhoretz
May 18, 2016 | 1:53am
Another primary night for the Democrats and another difficult night for Hillary Clinton, who’s almost certainly going to be the Democratic nominee even though a great many Democrats are determined to make that as difficult as possible for her.
She squeaked out a victory over Bernie Sanders in Kentucky — a state she won by 35 points in 2009 — before losing by a significant margin to Sanders in Oregon.
Many Democrats are disenchanted with her ideologically, but that’s not the only reason she’s suffering. Hillary is a politician in the John Kerry mold — she does inexplicably self-destructive things without actually having an impetuous, id-driven self-destructive streak.
Who else but a tone-deaf bumbler would have spoken the insanely infelicitous words — “we are going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business” — that destroyed her in West Virginia and made Kentucky so hard for her Tuesday night?
We all know she wanted to sell herself to environmentalists, but surely she could have found a way to do so without celebrating the elimination of working-class jobs during the Populist-Resentment Olympics that constitute the 2016 election cycle. Surely this has to be counted among the dumbest self-inflicted political errors of our time.
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