When you know why you’re doing something and you know there’s nothing more to it and certainly nothing sinister, it’s easy to assume that others will see it the same way,” she writes. She never interrogates the purity of her own motives and seems surprised when anyone else does.ĭiscussing her Wall Street speeches, she writes, “I didn’t think many Americans would believe that I’d sell a lifetime of principle and advocacy for any price. Clinton doesn’t seem like a naturally introspective person-if she were, she probably wouldn’t be so indomitable in the face of so much loss and pain. There are lots of inspirational quotes and moments of canned uplift. Clinton says she’ll never run for office again, but What Happened nevertheless sometimes feels like a campaign tome, with detailed policy proposals and wistful descriptions of what she’d have done as president.
Indeed, I wish the book were even more biting. Democrats don’t need to question their own assumptions and prescriptions.
“Republicans can say Putin’s meddling had no consequences. “If it’s all my fault, then the media doesn’t need to do any soul searching,” she writes. In What Happened, Clinton directly takes on the obsessive demand that she assume monocausal responsibility. For Trump to become president, many different people and institutions-the Republican Party, the press, the FBI-had to fail. But I had been unable to connect with the deep anger so many Americans felt or shake the perception that I was the candidate of the status quo.”īut her limitations as a candidate are not the whole story. I had tried to learn the lessons of 2008, and in many ways ran a better, smarter campaign this time. “My worst fears about my limitations as a candidate had come true. “I blamed myself,” she writes of the shattering moments after Trump gave his victory speech. Despite the carping of her critics, Clinton does in fact lacerate herself for losing.
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