Charles Krauthammer calls it “Early Onset Clinton Fatigue” and, for once, he’s on to something. During the original Clinton presidency, my defenses of the Clintons were restricted to the area around the coffee machine at work. But I’d be lying if I said that I’ve recovered from the effort. I’d be dishonest if I didn’t admit that I still resent having to defend that couple considering how we were repaid.
And I did have to defend them, because what they were accused of doing was never commensurate with what they had actually done. Their critics were bad people and they were unhinged. The media, including supposedly liberal bastions like the New York Times and Washington Post, treated them in a shoddy and occasionally downright unprofessional manner.
The upshot is that, today, I have no energy and even less inclination to do it all over again. If politics becomes reduced, once more, to pointing out that Hillary Clinton is being unfairly maligned, I think I’ll leave that job to someone else. Her cause is not mine, and if she takes up my banner and the responsibility to keep the Republicans out of the White House, I’ll feel like my work has been hijacked.
I’m a realist, which is why I haven’t spent my time railing against another Clinton candidacy. And I’m not doing that now. This is more personal. It’s how I feel.
Personally, there’s nothing “Early Onset” about this kind of fatigue. This is much more like the end game. Do I want one more moment of Clinton family drama?
I do not.