Hillionaire's impossible task: happy-talking the current state of post-America

Great Ben Shapiro piece at NRO on how the last eight years - the era of the Most Equal Comrade - have forced the Freedom-Haters - particularly Hillionaire - to drag the delegates at their convention into an escapist realm of identity politics and we're-making-America-great-by-imposing-social-justice nonsense.

It's one of those I-could-easily-excerpt-the-whole-thing pieces. For purposes of the point I want to make here, we'll take some segments out of sequence. Let's start with just what it is about the MEC era that has left Hillionaire unable to be candid about what will be facing the next president:

Barack Obama has been a highly unsuccessful president by any objective measure. His foreign policy has led to the single most explosive rise in terrorism since the empowerment of al-Qaeda in the late 1990s by Hillary’s husband. His last two years have been plagued by a national increase in violent crime, particularly murder in major cities. The economy has continued to stall under his redistributionist, anti-capitalist watch.

And the Democrats have paid the price. The media that built Obama into a godhead for racial progress couldn’t abandon Obama; instead, they kept happy-talking their way through an increasingly dystopian America. So did Obama’s fellow Democrats. The result: massive Republican gains at the state and local level, and historic elections in 2010 and 2014 in Congressional races. 

The media still can’t escape the Obama trap. When Donald Trump rightly pointed out a series of problems facing America at home and abroad, ranging from rising crime and economic malaise to the rise of jihadism, the media and the Obama administration responded by pooh-poohing Trump’s critique. No, they said, Trump’s wrong: Everything’s hunky-dory. He’s just being too “dark.”

Except he isn’t.

And Americans know that.

Hillary knows it too, but she’s stuck in a bind. 

Now let's back up and look at what Shapiro points out as Hillionaire's most pressing problem in regard to her own character and personality:

But Bill Clinton’s wife is one of the least empathy-driven candidates in the history of politics. She’s manipulating, cynical, and nasty. She’s instinctively defensive, brutally cutting, and utterly cold. 

The polls show it. This week’s CNN poll demonstrated that 68 percent of Americans consider Hillary dishonest, and 54 percent think she’s running for personal gain. 

This is why there's such a push in Philadelphia this week to "humanize" her.

The only thing she has going for her in this regard is that nobody really thinks of Squirrel-Hair as a warm-hearted, other-centered fuzzball, either.

But like kids in a dysfunctional family, the post-American cattle-masses have no higher standard to wish for, as evidenced by voting patterns, social-media comment threads, and the sewage that spews forth in university classrooms, and the spiritually grotesque creatures we choose to make into celebrities.

But back to my original point, Hillionaire is not the most credible dispenser of happy talk in a year like 2016. All candidates have challenges, and that's hers.