Hillary needs to accept her elitism

Of course she’s out of touch. She’s one of the most powerful and important people in America. The real miracle was that she managed to appear “in touch” in 2007 and 2008.

Part of Clinton’s advantage back then was one she’ll never have again. She was the default option for Democrats who — for whatever reason, including prejudice — would not or could not vote for a half-black Harvard lawyer who had grown up in Hawaii and Indonesia, whose middle name was Hussein, and whose last name was one letter removed from the world’s top terrorist.

Obama did himself no favors, either. Remember when he tried to explain the mindset of small-town Pennsylvanians to wealthy Californians at a private fundraiser? When their communities fail to revive, he said as an unpaid Huffington Post blogger secretly recorded him, “it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.” Way to win over those blue-collar whites.

Not surprisingly, he didn’t.