At their 2020 virtual convention, Democrats were close to permanently casting off former President Bill Clinton, finally relieved to be rid of the disgraced former leader whose presidential legacy was marred by his long reputation for sexual predation.
“Even abbreviated, Clinton’s appearance was tricky for his party,” the Associated Press noted in its writeup of his speech for the COVID-era convention, where Clinton pre-recorded a five-minute presentation that ran after one from former president Jimmy Carter.
The early-evening Tuesday slot “was all the former president was allotted by a party eager to show it is moving out of the politics of the past,” the AP declared.
“… Many Democrats are searching for new leaders, even as they nominate former Vice President Joe Biden, and pushing for a liberal agenda that leaves behind the centrist politics of the Clinton era,” it continued. “Further complicating the moment for Clinton is the #MeToo movement, which has forced some women to reevaluate Clinton’s history of sexual misconduct allegations.”
Just four years later, however, Democrats and their media allies are ready to rethink their priorites—and to reinvent themselves by once again embracing the man whom then-candidate Barack Obama dubbed the “secretary of explaining stuff” in 2012, while memory-holing the inconvenient truths that accompany him. […]
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