At the same time, there are journalists who trumpet every success of Trump’s while ignoring his shortcomings and failures or treating them like successes anyway. It amplifies the resentment of Trump’s supporters and feeds Trump’s narrative that he’s an embattled victim. But their stance violates long-standing norms of their profession.
They may be right about the dangers posed by a Trump presidency. They mock him in a way they didn’t mock previous presidents whom they didn’t particularly like. Many first-rate journalists at first-rate publications have decided Trump is not just someone whose policies they may disagree with: they have decided he’s dangerous and a liar. That said, I’ve lived through all of those administrations, but this time feels different. Democrats hated the Bushes, Reagan, and Nixon. On the surface, this is just politics as usual. Point any of these out and you’re told that it doesn’t matter because Hillary Clinton would have been worse.
They ignore his dishonesty, his personal failings, his policy inconsistencies from day to day, and how many of his policies violate principles his supporters claimed to revere until very recently. On the other side, Trump’s fans find it hard to concede he’s done anything wrong. They’re literally going to kill people they’re murder. In fact, we’re told how his policies-the tax cuts, net neutrality, the spending cuts that will have to be made to pay for the tax cuts, deregulation-aren’t just bad ideas. The people who hate him can’t concede he’s done anything worthwhile. People can’t seem to handle that ambiguity. I don’t like Donald Trump as a person and I dislike many of his policies intensely, but he has done some good things. The Trump phenomenon is just one example. What disturbs me is how we talk to each other and our unwillingness to give even a modest hearing to the other side. Maybe it’s paranoia but it’s been a long time since I’ve felt the thinness of the veneer of civilization and our vulnerability to a sequence of events that might threaten not just the policy positions I prefer but the very existence of the American experiment. The best lack all conviction, while the worst The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere Let's roll out some HRC memes to keep us smiling all the way to the primaries and beyond.The current state of political and intellectual conversation is increasingly like the world William Butler Yeats described in his masterpiece, “The Second Coming”: So, cue the sarcasm, hair flips, and shades. And some of these memes bring the ultimate caption game. She keeps the cameras, and the computer mouses literally clicking. Clinton iPhone selfie.Īlthough Hillz has created some photog bliss of her own, her meme fame is at a fantastic peak. Kim K., Meryl Streep (#bffgoals), Nancy Pelosi and more have been the subject of a good old fashioned H. She's become quite the selfie queen and has jumped in front of the lens with more than just a few famous faces.
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But even with that laser focus, she has time to be funny and charming.Īnd when she gets the chance, Hillz knows how to work the camera magic. She wears me out! But it’s the most wonderful wearing out. There are several Hillary Clinton memes to keep close at hand as we rev up to 2016 - the below are just a few.Īs Walker said in a 2014 interview, Clinton has always been accessible to the public via the camera lens and takes the time to play it up for the camera, despite her busy day. Who doesn't think of TIME photographer Diana Walker's iconic image of sunglass-clad Hillary when they think of HRC? And now, the Hillary Clinton memes have far surpassed what TFH co-creators Stacy Lambe and Adam Smith might have ever imagined. Since the Tumblr page Texts from Hillary (TFH) premiered in 2012, Hillary Clinton fans haven't been able to get enough of a good Hillz meme.
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