2016 Postmortem

Hillary was criticized years ago when she first entered politics for what people called her lack of experience. Her years as a lawyer and advocate and First Lady were treated as worthless and irrelevant and it was held against her that she didn't have the RIGHT experience for national office, i.e., governor, senator, etc. Of course, this is the trap set for women (and minorities) all the time. White men make the rules and decide what constitutes relevant experience - and that experience just HAPPENS to be limited to the kinds of jobs that, until recently, were largely off-limits to anyone but white men.

So, Hillary did the right thing. She built up her experience in those fields that the white guys said were critical - she became a senator, ran for president and then served as Secretary of State. She jumped through the hoops everyone told her were absolutely mandatory for her to deserve to be president. And when she did, she was accused of being "too Establishment" to merit election to the presidency.

I call bullshit on this goalpost moving double standard.