Matt Walsh
On Friday, a tape surfaced of
Donald Trump bragging about
sexually assaulting women. Two days later, in the midst of the fallout, Hillary
Clinton managed to lose to him in a debate. It was a
historic feat of political incompetence.
What we have to understand is
that Clinton, based on her own personality and skill, would at this point
in her life have risen as far as the position of DMV shift supervisor. Maybe
community college gender studies professor if she got the right breaks. But her
actual resume is entirely the result of her fortunate (and also extremely
unfortunate) marital arrangement.
She didn’t get here on her
own. She is not the feminist hero her supporters want so badly for her to be.
She’s an ill equipped, corrupt and viscerally unlikable woman whose
greatest accomplishment in life was marrying a serial rapist. She’s not ready
for prime time, never has been, never will be, and it showed tonight.
I have no idea what the polls
will say or how any of it played outside of my living room, but from where I
sit, I’d say Trump not only won, but won handily (no pun intended). He put
Hillary on the defensive. He forced her to give embarrassingly insufficient answers
on her emails and her treatment of her husband’s assault victims, among other
issues. Importantly, he got her to bust out her patented “evil step mother”
cackle on a number of occasions.
She fumbled and bumbled her
way through most of it. At one point she delivered a line she thought was
hilarious and paused for laughter that never came. It was so humiliating that
it almost made me feel bad for her, which was a very confusing and
uncomfortable feeling. Amazingly, she never conjured up a single compelling
comeback, which is even more incredible considering she must have known
and prepared ahead of time for every attack he’d launch. It was like if the New
England Patriots recorded their opponents’ sideline signals and then went on to
lose all of their games anyway.
Again, I don’t know how anyone
else received this part, but I liked it when Trump promised to have
Clinton arrested if he’s elected president. I have to believe that was a
first for modern American presidential debates — and in any other year it would
have been several thousand light years beyond overkill — but Hillary is such a
detestable crook that it actually worked. And besides, Trump himself is so
detestable that all he can really do at this point is send the message that
Hillary is even worse than he is. It’s the only move he has now. And he played
it tonight. And it paid off, I thought.
It should be noted that nearly
all of the accusations the candidates threw at each other were true. Yes, Trump
bragged about assaulting women. Yes, Trump encouraged violence at his rallies
and so on. And yes, Hillary is a crook. Yes, Hillary personally attacked and
destroyed her husband’s rape victims. Yes, Hillary is a pathological liar. Yes,
Hillary was unfit and incompetent as secretary of state and so on. They’re both
gross, so the only sales pitch they really have is the one Prince Humperdink proposed in the
“Princess Bride”: “Please consider me an alternative to suicide.”
But they can only make that
case if they’re effective at painting the other as suicide. Tonight, Trump did
a much better job in that regard. There’s no getting around it, no matter how
much you hate Trump. And Democrats who are apoplectic about the possibility of
a Trump presidency only have themselves to blame for running Nurse Ratched
against him.
All in all, tonight’s
spectacle, like much of the rest of this election season, reminded me of a
verse from the Book of Judges: “You have forsaken me and served other gods,
therefore I will deliver you no more. Go and cry out to the gods which you have
chosen.”
We’ve earned this national
moment. These are the gods we have chosen and that was the debate we have
chosen. And Trump won it, for what it’s worth.
Title and Text: Matt Walsh, The Blaze, October 10, 2016
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