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“... memoir, Priestdaddy (2017), Lockwood described her childhood as the daughter of a conservative, Hillary Clinton-hating Catholic priest. She emerged, Lisa Simpson-like, from an upbringing in ‘all the worst cities in the Midwest’, with their bleak glacier-scraped landscapes, where the word ‘toxic’ referred mostly to the abundance of Superfund ...”

“... clear. These constitutional barriers have seriously distorted the democratic process. In 2016, Hillary Clinton won the popular vote for the presidency, gaining 2.9 million votes more than Trump, but it was Trump who won the Electoral College vote, by 304 to 227. The skew in the Electoral College in favour of small, sparsely populated states ...”

“... The centre-left media went to sleep after the Iran-Contra scandal of 1986-87, dozed through the Clinton years, and were half-asleep and nodding when they approved Cheney and Bush’s war in Iraq and Obama and Clinton’s war in Libya. For obscure reasons, they have been quite certain that Western dismantling of yet ...”

“... What happened in the 1994 Congressional elections was much more than the defeat of President Clinton and his post-leftist policies, though that it certainly was. And the election was much more than the defeat of the Democrats as the party of all Americans (with the exception of heterosexual white males and non-feminist white females), though that too it certainly was ...”

“... octologue?) arranged between two short narrative paragraphs of scene-setting (‘It was the week Hillary Clinton finally conceded’) and curtain-closing: ‘After he had closed the front door, Phil put on some Madeleine Peyroux, kissed his wife on the apron string round the back of her neck, went upstairs to a darkened bedroom, cautiously approached ...”

“... not merely idealised fictions or – in the case of more recent super-celebrities like Diana and Hillary Clinton – media creations. Feminists’ propensity to invent each other goes unexamined, replaced by a myth of heroic self-invention. Whether this is because the anti-maternal element in such fantasies is felt as too dangerous (Showalter’s own ...”

“... sphere. One striking example of this is cited by Davies: ‘86 per cent of those who voted for Hillary Clinton expressed trust in the economic data produced by the federal government, compared to just 13 per cent of those who voted for Donald Trump.’If that’s how it is going to be in the future, then Brennan’s epistocratic ideal is already out ...”

“... In the final year of the last century, George Stephanopoulos, Bill Clinton’s one-time aide and press secretary, published a memoir of his time in the White House entitled All Too Human: A Political Education. Back then, it seemed like a terribly exciting book: 1999 was the year of Clinton’s Senate trial, following his impeachment, and also of the first appearance on US television of The West Wing, which offered the fantasy of a different kind of liberal president ...”

“... has transformed into the Palava Hut,’ she declared, ‘And so I don’t care what you say.’ Hillary Clinton described her as ‘a very accomplished leader dedicated to the betterment of the Liberian people’. The UN Human Rights Council is still muttering about imposing sanctions on Liberia in the coming year if the government fails to implement ...”

“... year,’ my mother told me sagely: in 2016 the ads she saw on Facebook were mostly images of Hillary Clinton in a mandarin collar Photoshopped to have laser eyes.As for my father, for the past few years I haven’t pressed him on the specifics of any of his own most cherished conspiracy theories, fearing what I might find. (This is a man who, after ...”

“... destroy the nation-state. In 2016, the New York Times reported Donald Trump’s allegation that ‘Hillary Clinton meets in secret with international banks to plot the destruction of US sovereignty in order to enrich these global financial powers.’ In her Conservative Party Conference speech the same year, Theresa May claimed that ‘citizens of ...”

“... runs the event, won’t let the Irish Lesbian and Gay Organisation march under its own banner. Hillary Clinton, who’s running for Pat Moynihan’s old seat, marched this year in an alternative parade in Queens as well as in the official version. Politicians often try too hard to get the Irish vote. In No News at Throat Lake,* his account of a year ...”

“... description of an entertainment that the characters stage: ‘Cassidy plays the role of President Hillary Clinton.’ Two​ hard-to-define works, ‘Sailing towards the Sunset by Avner Shats’, written ‘one chapter per day in December 1998’ and offered here in a ‘new spell-checked edition … prepared in 2011’, and ‘European Story for Avner ...”

“... for example, are the charges of lesbianism and Machiavellian manoeuvring levelled against Hillary Clinton from those published two centuries earlier against Marie Antoinette (leaving aside for the moment the rather different outcomes for the two women)? True, Hillary was not accused of committing incest with ...”

“... utilitarianism and democratic simplicity of the six black trouser suits mentioned by Hillary Clinton in her Senate victory speech. After the election, Ivana Trump was asked if her black trouser suit was a homage to Hillary. ‘No, darling,’ she told the journalist. ‘This is Dior couture.’ Journalists ...”