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Though Rep.Keith Ellison was muscled into second place in the DNC chair race by the Democratic establishment, which selected former Secretary of Labor Tom Perez to prevent him from winning, Ellison is defending their status quo.

On March 16, Ellisonrespondedon Twitter to a user who criticized HillaryClintonby citing things President DonaldTrumphas done that Clintonwouldnt have doneand reduced the initially cited criticism as spin. Peter Daoua former Clinton adviser who writes for a pro-Clinton outlet that was funded by Clinton Super PACs specifically to create and distribute propaganda to boost Clintons candidacythanked Ellison on Twitter for the exchange. Ellisonrepliedenthusiastically, Honored to stand up for HRC!

Hillary Clinton doesnt warrant progressives standing up for her, and continually defendingClintonwill prevent the Democratic Partys recovery. The manner in which Clinton won the Democratic presidential nomination was a stark indicator of how undemocratic the Democratic Partys primary process and rules are. Yet, the DNC has suppressed any calls forreforms. Super delegates, closed primaries, a primary process susceptible to overt bias from the DNC chair andstaff, and corrupt funding from corporate lobbyists and Super Pacs have all been kept in place. Claims that the Democratic Party is united are pointless as long as progressives like Ellison are continuing to force feed Hillary Clinton to the progressive wing of the Democratic Party.

Clintons flawed recordcombined withObamas adoption of a neo-liberal political agenda contrary to his campaign promises of hope and changerepelled millions of voters from the Democratic Party. The last thing Democrats should be doing is trying to rehabilitate Hillary Clinton. Continuing to reverberate the failed Democratic Party strategy of focusing on Trump being worse than Clinton makes Democrats appear disconnected and out-of-touch. Despite Ellison gaining a reputation as being one of the few members of Congress that endorsed Sen. Bernie Sanders during the 2016 Democratic primaries, Ellison has tweeted about Clintonover a dozen times. For comparison, he mentioned Sanders twice in the same period. Clearly, Ellison is pandering to the Democratic establishment over voters, as Sanders remains substantially more popular with voters than any other member in the Democratic Party. Sanders recently led a Fox News favorability poll over every politician polled in the Democrat and Republican parties, and he maintains over a 56 percent favorability rating based on current poll averages.

Democrats should be adopting the strategies that made Sanders the most popular politician in the country and should focus on issues that impact working, low income and middle class Americans. While Democratic leaders remain obsessed with the Trump-Russia narrative, Sanders has been hosting town halls and engaging voters in states like West Virginia, Kansas, and Wisconsinplaces where the Democratic Party has suffered drastic losses since 2008. Rather than try to recoup these losses, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) is debating notputting resources into rural America at all. And Rural America isnt the only area where Democrats have been losing support. Since 2008, exit poll data shows that Democrats have continuously lost voters in every voter demographic, and Democrats low favorability is due to millions of voters, who have traditionally been loyal to the party,developing widespread resentment against it.

Ellison and other establishment Democrats need to give up on trying to make Hillary Clinton seem palatable to American voters. Their stubborn insistence to defendher even after she lostwill ensure that the voters who left the Democratic Party never return.

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Former Sanders-Backer Continues to Cringingly 'Stand Up' for Hillary Clinton - Observer

Texan Democrat Wendy Davis says Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election in a "misogynistic climate" and said women in opposition to President Trump have decided to shed their "good girl" behavior.

The former lawmaker from Texas whose 11-hour filibuster against an anti-abortion bill in 2014 shot her to national prominence, said her failed 2014 Texas gubernatorial bid and the 2016 election showed that the U.S., both on the state and national level, still needs to get passed a stigma that women can't lead in an executive role as well as men.

"We have work to do not just in helping to reframe the way men may view women as leaders, but how women view women as leaders, particularly in executive offices," she told Vox.

Davis said she was "devastated" by Clinton's 2016 loss because it would have been a chance to showcase how well a woman could lead.

"Not only did I believe she would win, but I knew she was going to be an extraordinary president, and she was going to leave that legacy of demonstrating how incredibly not just capable, but talented, women can be in those roles," Davis said.

Since the election, Davis noted that she's witnessed an uptick in women speaking out, exhibiting their feminism, pointing to the success of the Women's March on Washington.

"The Women's March was just the most extraordinary thing I've ever seen, and it was a display of this kind of pent-up "good girl" behavior that we've all been up to for a long time, where we've struggled to go along and get along," Davis said. "I think some of us have suffered from the idea that if we navigate our way more subtly through the challenges we face as women, that that will somehow serve our ultimate goal."

She said because Clinton lost in "a misogynistic climate against a candidate who had exhibited tremendous sexism and misogyny." That result, she added, was "like a big cold splash of water in all of our faces that we decided, 'No more being nice.'"

"It's not that we're being ugly now, but we're being much more assertive, and we're not demurring to the idea that this isn't a conversation that we should have, and I'm really encouraged by that," Davis said. "And, while we did not break that glass ceiling that ultimate one we took a big leap forward in moving the gender equality conversation in a powerful way, and I think we're going to sustain it."

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TheNew Yorker is reporting that theOnion is having a hard time satirizing a president who is already outrageous.

In the piece, which focuses on the struggles of an average pitch meeting, we learn what the front page would have looked like ifHillary Clinton had become President.

FromtheNew Yorker:

There were some really good Hillary-wins headlines, Ben Berkley, the managing editor, said, pulling up a never-published front page on his laptop. In a giant font: Desperate woman settles for asshole nation without much money. Below that: Now, Sisters, Destroy These Tools of Our Oppression! Shrieks Victorious Hillary Clinton While Brandishing Fistful of Severed Penises. And beneath a headshot of a smug Trump: Trump immediately concedes election after discovering object of desire is 240 years old.

Maybe they can repurpose those headlines if it is, in fact, true that the former Secretary of State is planning to run for Mayor of New York.

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Addison Timlin at SXSW. William Callan for BuzzFeed News

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AUSTIN When Addison Timlin got the call in August that she had landed the role of Hillary Diane Rodham in When Im a Moth, she was terrified mainly because the movie would be released during Clintons administration, or so the 25-year-old actor thought.

But on Nov. 8, Timlin and the rest of the world learned that wouldnt be the case. I was so, so heartbroken, the actor said of Clintons loss. All I could think was, Oh my fucking god. I was so sad for her. Playing her and thinking about her and reading about her and listening to her when she was a young woman, she is fucking remarkable. And she is adorable and she is so well-spoken and she is so charming, really. And shes done really incredible things, always the whole time. I think shes pretty fucking great and I was devastated, especially because I thought she was super fucking capable. I dont think any of us expected what happened to happen but in that way, it kind of gives the movie another shape.

When Im a Moth, which began production in October, takes place in 1969 during the gap year Clinton took to work in Alaska before embarking on her law career but Timlin is quick to add that its not a traditional biopic. There are plenty of moments where were like, This didnt happen, she said. Its less about that time in her life and [more] about this young woman starting to have the understanding that her life from that point forward will be lived in a very specific way as to not disturb anyone to become a very well-liked person. I think it was all intentional, but I dont think it was disingenuous. I think a lot of people feel that way about Hillary Clinton, that shes always tried to be liked and thats what people have veered away from. Its interesting, but I think its something, unfortunately, women all over the world deal with in every way this tragic need to be liked.

Clinton at Wellesley College.

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Its a concept Timlin also explores in Like Me, which had its world premiere at SXSW recently and in which she plays Kiya, an artist who gains a massive social media following after posting a video of herself robbing a convenience store. I think in the world right now, everyone is seeking validation all the time and getting it, too, Timlin said. Kiyas just trying to communicate with her generation in the only way that they do. Its something she actually feels disconnected from but knows that it is the only way to connect with people, and I think thats kind of an unfortunate truth for our generation and the world right now.

While playing Kiya gave her insight into people her own age, playing Clinton became the inspiration for whom Timlin wants to be in the future. This is the story of a woman who is just starting to turn this corner where shes not afraid of being intimidating and shes not afraid to be the smartest person in the room, she said of Clinton in When Im a Moth. She wants to be the smartest person in the room and she wants to be the most powerful person in the room. Thats something Ive never sought after in my real life, but I did enjoy going to that place.

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