Nearly two years after President Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in a stunning election victory, the twice-failed presidential candidate has penned an essay accusing the president and the Republican Party of waging a full-on assault against American democracy.
In the afterword for the paperback edition of her 2017 memoir, "What Happened," which is set to release Tuesday, Mrs. Clinton proclaimed that the undermining of the country's institutions was overwhelmingly a Republican problem.
"Whether it was abusing the filibuster and stealing a Supreme Court seat, gerrymandering congressional districts to disenfranchise African Americans, or muzzling government climate scientists, Republicans were undermining American democracy long before Trump made it to the Oval Office," she said.
It's about the constitutional crisis building in our democracy and why we should all be focused, determined and, yes, optimistic as we work to save our country.
Mrs. Clinton, who served as secretary of state under former President Barack Obama, cited Mr. Trump's immigration policies and handling of the Puerto Rico hurricane crisis as examples of the administration's "Unspeakable cruelty."
Mrs. Clinton then proposed several steps Democrats needed to take in order to "Save our democracy and heal our body politic," including mobilizing a massive turnout in the November midterm elections and then passing a slew of reforms, similar to the post-Richard Nixon era, that would constitute "Improving and protecting our elections." She also repeated her call to end the Electoral College, which handed Mr. Trump the presidential victory in 2016, despite her winning the popular vote.
"Democracy may be our birthright as Americans, but it's not something we can ever take for granted," Mrs. Clinton concluded her piece.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/sep/17/hillary-clinton-republicans-were-undermining-democ/
In the afterword for the paperback edition of her 2017 memoir, "What Happened," which is set to release Tuesday, Mrs. Clinton proclaimed that the undermining of the country's institutions was overwhelmingly a Republican problem.
"Whether it was abusing the filibuster and stealing a Supreme Court seat, gerrymandering congressional districts to disenfranchise African Americans, or muzzling government climate scientists, Republicans were undermining American democracy long before Trump made it to the Oval Office," she said.
It's about the constitutional crisis building in our democracy and why we should all be focused, determined and, yes, optimistic as we work to save our country.
Mrs. Clinton, who served as secretary of state under former President Barack Obama, cited Mr. Trump's immigration policies and handling of the Puerto Rico hurricane crisis as examples of the administration's "Unspeakable cruelty."
Mrs. Clinton then proposed several steps Democrats needed to take in order to "Save our democracy and heal our body politic," including mobilizing a massive turnout in the November midterm elections and then passing a slew of reforms, similar to the post-Richard Nixon era, that would constitute "Improving and protecting our elections." She also repeated her call to end the Electoral College, which handed Mr. Trump the presidential victory in 2016, despite her winning the popular vote.
"Democracy may be our birthright as Americans, but it's not something we can ever take for granted," Mrs. Clinton concluded her piece.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/sep/17/hillary-clinton-republicans-were-undermining-democ/
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