Chasing Hillary: On the Trail of the First Woman President Who Wasn't

by Amy Chozick

But then that was me doing what I so often did—imagining Hillary as I wanted her to be and not as she really was.

It took me years, but when my grasp of the real Hillary finally came into focus, I accepted that it wasn’t that she didn’t know how The Guys acted. It was that she liked them that way.

“Absolutely hate this framing of the necessity of voting (for Democrats) that places all the blame on marginalized and young folks,”

Bill Clinton was the best friend Donald Trump always hoped to have. When a sex scandal loomed over the White House, Trump defended the president, saying he was a “terrific guy.” His only criticism was of his choice. “It was Monica! I mean, terrible choice,” Trump told the Times.

By late February, Bill went red in the face on almost daily conference calls trying to warn Brooklyn that Trump had a shrewd understanding of the angst that so many voters—his voters, the white working class whom Clinton brought back to the Democratic Party in 1992—were feeling.