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I'm trying to figure out how it matters. A question is a question. Her ducking the answer is her ducking the answer. Doesn't matter WHO asked the question.
It matters to the republican audience because now they can dismiss the whole thing as the fault of democrats. It doesn't have to make sense beyond that. Seemingly bad thing happened -> Democrats caused it -> Don't need to think about it anymore.
They're stupid.
This is why we can't have nice things, apparently. Weaponized stupidity, at this point. I'm still unclear as to the origins of the brain damage, though. Seems much worse in rural areas.
And she's from the self-proclaimed party of personal responsibility.
The political affiliation of the questioner doesn't matter, but in today's politics, the fact that that is irrelevant itself doesn't matter. The GOP base is so well-trained by decades of Fox News that just making a claim - with zero evidence - that Democratic people are responsible is enough for that GOP base to assign blame to Democrats for any negative outcome.
There really is no more explanation. This is where we are as a country.
The real problem is that she didn’t handle it well. She will be a very good President for the war party.
The GOP are so used to asking questions in bad faith, they assume all questions they answer that make them look bad were asked in bad faith.