Could Hillary Clinton Ever Have Imagined This?

Hillary Clinton is moving ever closer to becoming something this country has never had before: a woman nominated by a major political party to be the president of the United States. The possibility that she will go head-to-head against Donald Trump puts the historic nature of her campaign in even starker relief. Had Republicans nominated someone like Jeb Bush or Marco Rubio, the regressive gender politics of their party might have stayed hidden under a veneer of rhetorical admiration for women’s equality. But Trump appears constitutionally incapable of that.

 

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