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How do you headcanon Hillary Clinton like that, best i can do is a Carol Holliday from Deltarune that doesn't even have cool antlers or a katana.
a good chunk of it is projection. back in '16, who knows how many pmc types were sold on the marketing pitch that she was "the most qualified person to ever run for president" and saw her usurped.
the 20~~16~~ 08 election cycle mirrored a very common experience for these types: getting passed over for promotion or missing out on partner by a younger, hipper, male-r silver-tongued devil, an empty suit who "hadn't paid his dues" but was simply better liked.
the core of hillary fans, and i mean the diamond-hard core of true believers, not the cynics and grifters within the democratic party machine who feed off her former fundraising prowess, the people who would benefit in no material sense whatsoever under a third clinton administration but were completely devoted to her, the "party unity, my ass" crew, that's these poor people.
and i feel sorry them, honestly. odds are they didn't get into their chosen field because they married someone else who was better at it and rode his coattails. odds are they weren't gifted higher and higher profile positions only to fail each time and keep getting promoted. odds are they really were qualified for whatever job their personal obama yanked away from them by hosting poker night for the regional manager.
they're still annoying as fuck tho.
The crazy thing is that, because they have 'paid their dues' they think they are entitled to lead, but they are working within a completely cynical crowd, where 'paying your dues' only does three things, gives others leverage over you, makes people nervous because you have leverage over them, and demonstrates that you are willing to eat as much shit as they can shovel at you and smile through stained teeth.
There are so many times when Hillary could have bucked the system, even a tiny bit, and instantly gained a popular following, but she can't because she is just fundamentally not smart enough (or at least equipped with the knowledge) to recognize those political opportunities outside of her D.C. bubble.
On the other hand she would also sometimes try to buck the system, but always at the most inopportune moments and in the absolute worst way - Starting Obama birtherism and the Pied piper thing
I don't even think that was her bucking the system, both of those things are tried and true old school Democrat tactics. Like, literal Arkansaw Dixiecrats tactics. Her literally just working within the system and tactics that she is familiar with.
i can't attest to this personally as i'm not AmeriKKKan, but that does sound like a fairly convincing description of the Clintonite Character
Now that you mentioned it, if I were Bill Clinton I'd be asking my doctor to test me for non-descript fatal coughing disease
i used to call it bunker-induced supercancer, but then i learned that deer basically don't get cancer, so i guess it's something else