Cassandra

In Greek mythology, Cassandra was cursed with the gift of being able to tell the future but also having no one believe her prophecies.

This must be how Hillary Clinton feels every morning.

Obviously, Donald Trump has proven to be everything Clinton predicted he would be, but now we have an interesting example just this week.  In some ways this is the perfect Hillary story.

Hillary Clinton went on a podcast and said that Republicans were grooming a Democrat for a third party run. The NY Times - who has never missed an opportunity to shit on the Clintons - WROTE THE WRONG THING and said that Clinton said the Russians were grooming this anonymous Democrat for the third party run.  She instead was suggesting that Trump was a Russian asset, which he certainly appears to be.

Anyway, Tulsi Gabbard jumps up and screams, "How dare you call me a Russian asset!"  Now, Clinton never mentioned Gabbard by name, but Gabbard knew she must have been talking about her, because she has a long history of affinity for Putin and others like Bashar al Assad. 

Some Never Trump hangwringers like Tom Nichols who have a long history of hating Hillary blame her for the possibility that Gabbard might run third party.  (Third party spoilers seem Trump's only hope of winning at this point.)

So, to recap: Hillary says that there's a Democrat being groomed by Republicans for a third party run, the Times screws up it's reporting, centrists blame Clinton for pointing out something that appears to be true.

Anyway, this morning Gabbard said she's not running for re-election.  She's criticizing the impeachment proceedings on Fox with Fox News talking points. 

She's a Republican.  She has been a Republican.  Hillary basically pointed out that Gabbard is an impostor Democrat, because that's exactly what Gabbard is and always has been. Clinton gets blamed for Gabbard doing the thing that she was always going to do.

I've worried that Elizabeth Warren will be treated the same way Hillary Clinton was, but there really is something especially pathological about the way Clinton has been treated over the past 30 years.