In the 2020 Election, It’s Still the Men Vs. Hillary Clinton

Supporters of both Bernie and Trump appear fixated on a familiar — and somewhat irrelevant — foe

Jude Ellison S. Doyle
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6 min readOct 3, 2019

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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivers a keynote speech during the American Federation of Teachers Shanker Institute Defense of Democracy Forum at George Washington University on September 17, 2019 in Washington, DC. Photo: Zach Gibson/Getty Images

II hate to say “I told you so,” but here we are: We have less than 90 days left in 2019, the 2020 election has been underway for almost a year now, and Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders partisans are still campaigning against Hillary Clinton.

The most notable offender, of course, is the president, whose obsession with the alleged corruption and lawbreaking of “Crooked Hillary” has shown no sign of slowing down (not even while he deals with his own impeachment issues). Last week, the Washington Post broke the news that the Trump administration has been escalating its investigation into (brace yourself) Hillary’s emails. Though the FBI dropped its investigation into Clinton’s use of a private server long ago, the State Department has contacted as many as 130 of its own current and former officials who had emailed Clinton’s private address, notifying them that they had “been identified as possibly bearing some culpability” in security violations. The individuals were typically let off the hook shortly afterward; though the State Department has denied that the investigation was politically motivated, exasperated former officials told the Post it was nothing more…

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Jude Ellison S. Doyle
Jude Ellison S. Doyle

Written by Jude Ellison S. Doyle

Author of “Trainwreck” (Melville House, ‘16) and “Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers” (Melville House, ‘19). Columns published far and wide across the Internet.