.ed_kilgore imagines how the political world would be treating First Gentleman Bill Clinton right now had Hillary won in 2016
Bill and Hill in 2016. Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Bill Clinton celebrates his 73rd birthday today. Even though he is three years younger than Joe Biden and four years younger than Bernie Sanders , the 42nd president seems more and more like a figure from an increasingly distant past. As Todd Purdum observes, he is for the most part roundly ignored by today’s Democrats:
In part, Clinton’s eclipse is the product of the simple fact that the more recent Democratic president, Barack Obama, gradually supplanted the Big Dog as the symbol of the sort of pragmatic left-of-center political tradition the Arkansan once exemplified; with time, Biden may become more associated with it than the man who signed Biden’s famous 1994 crime bill.
Fairly or not, Democrats largely want to forget about Clinton, while Republicans have other fish to fry; those who want to settle old scores tend to focus not on the 42nd president but on his wife. But that does raise a fascinating question: How would the political world be treating First Gentleman Bill Clinton had his wife won in November 2016?
In the parallel universe wherein Hillary Clinton had paid more attention to Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin and had converted her solid popular-vote plurality into a victory, Republicans would have very likely discarded Trump as a leader and returned to the more sanctimonious posture of sexual rectitude they exhibited when trying to remove Bill from office.
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