Via Kevin Drum, we get this from Lisa Schiffren of NRO:
You know what? Deep in my psyche, in the place that kind of misses the toothache I’ve been prodding at with my tongue, I am having a tiny little pang of missing Hillary. Not her, but hating her. Hating Hillary has been such a central political impulse for so long now — 15 years — and I have had to work so hard to keep it up as she became more appealling looking, less shrill, more human — I don’t really know what I will do with that newly freed strand of energy.
I suppose it’s slightly premature to start talking about ‘missing Hillary’ although I think her campaign is toast. What I’m more interested in is your reaction to this kind of Hillary-hate. It makes Kevin Drum defensive. He goes so far as to point to this confession as his reason to support Clinton.
As long as we’re laying our cards on the table, this is one of the things that keeps me on Hillary’s side regardless of anything to do with issues or tactics or rhetoric or anything else. I just hate the idea that the fever swamp has been able to turn a perfectly decent liberal woman into such an object of malign loathing. If she loses, then she loses. But by God, I don’t want her to lose because millions of Schiffren’s fellow travelers have carried on a 15-year vendetta of sick-minded smears and hatred. Enough’s enough.
Psychology is a tricky thing. I read Lisa Schiffren and I think a) she’s a moron, and b) thank god I won’t have to read all this Hillary hating crap for the next eight years (fingers crossed).
I’ve never been a fan of melodrama.
