GOP candidates clearly recognize the growing threat to the nation, in marked contrast with Hillary Clinton.
The high moments were few in Hillary Clinton’s kickoff campaign speech Saturday, though her tirade describing Republicans as the forces of “yesterday,” singing the same old song, was indisputably a crowd-pleaser. It was also conspicuous in its familiarity, as was Mrs. Clinton’s accompanying litany of accusations, each in its old-song way the quintessence of Obama-age social wisdom.
“I’ll fight back,” she declared, “against Republican efforts to disempower and disenfranchise young people, poor people, people with disabilities and people of color.” There was more of the kind about the oppression of women and gay people who love each other, and transgender people and their families—her encyclopedia of the victimized is long—and dark references to “CEOs and hedge-fund managers” and “billionaires and corporations.”