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“I’m not a psychiatrist. I’m not going there,” one of Bill’s longtime $0\VWHULRXV0DUULDJHas with any story about the clintons, particularly one about their exile, there are questions about their endlessly scruti-nized marriage. Hillary spends most of her time in Chappaqua—her days of long, lonely walks in the woods are over—there more often than not. Ask friends how the Clintons are doing in their private life as a couple and they usually avoid answering. senior aides puts it. The truth most likely is: They are as they have and Bill is
“they’re partners,” says the aide. “They always will be.”been. Despite the personal scandals and political disappointments, rallies. People who feel that they’re stuck in economic stagnation, the American Revolution Hall, where the D.C. “Evening Wcent people out there who are a part of the ‘MClintons” was held, Bill, in the midst of a riff about the current political state of affairs, said, “There are a lot of very smart, de-social insignificance and political disempowerment.’’Still, there are moments that are jarring. At the Daughters of ake America great’ ith the
mention of her infamous description of Trump supporters as tion, never mind Russian meddling. Hillary didn’t even bother to a “basket of deplorables” and “irredeemables” during the camnumber of “Mpaign—according to a longtime friend, Bill had been unsettled by the while campaigning on her behalf.campaign in WHillary was sitting next to him as he said this. There was no the moment many of her aides believe cost her the elec-ake America great again” signs he had seen there isconsin during the general election, even though, -
two successful runs for the presidency. That they ended up elect-class people who, in many respects, were his political base during to Hillary and her former campaign advisers? Does he not know mer aides to the president say it drove him nuts that Hillary’s caming Trump “just kills,” says a friend.how that comment would be perceived? Hillary didn’t react one It was a stunning mDid Bill make the “smart, decent people” remark to rub it in paign didn’t feel the need to go after the white working-oment. Of course, Bill was right. For-
way or the other; the conversation moved on. Later, she alluded, as she did at several of these evening “conversations,” to the elec-tion being “stolen” from her—The audience applauds enthusiastically. Both Clintons nod.cally, one was decidedly not. Now, their public careers are over, and maybe it’s easier for them to say that a malevolent foreign force was the cause of her defeat. Bill, however, spoke an obvious truth: Insulting the voters you need only lands you in exile. Both are smart people, famously so. One was charismatic politi-a reference to Russian interference.“A lot of people votedand she’s already for her enthusiastically,been reminded of that. She’s still a voice in
American politics.”‘BASKET OF DEPLORABLES’? in October 2016; Trump supporters pose From top: Trump campaifor photos in 2019. gns in Ohio