Mother Jones: Hillary Clinton Is Fundamentally Honest and Trustworthy

There are few things more clear than death, taxes and the fact that you just can't trust Hillary Clinton. Sure, Trump is a racist and Cruz is crazy, but they are not known as liars even though there is no shortage of bull that they are willing to sling. But Hillary? If there is one last issue where you can have bipartisanship it is that you cannot trust Hillary Clinton. It is irrelevant the fact that many fact checks given Hillary and Bernie similar scores, compared the dismal scores given to Trump and Cruz, we just know in our bones that Hillary is untrustworthy.

http://www.politifact.com/personalities/hillary-clinton/

Thus, the fact that a writer for Mother Jones has apparently lost his mind and suggested that Hillary is fundamentally honest and trustworthy is mind boggling. If the media is pursuing a narrative, then there must be at least some truth, because where there is smoke, there must be a fire. Heck, Susan Sarandon is willing to vote for Donald Trump, rather than Hillary Clinton, because his election and the suffering that ensues would more quickly bring about the revolution that we all crave.

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/03/hillary-clinton-fundamentally-honest-and-trustworthy

As we all know, millennials don't care much for Hillary Clinton. That's okay. I'm on the other side of that particular fence, but there's plenty of room for honest differences about her views and whether they're right for the country—differences that I don't think are fundamentally rooted in age.

But there's one issue where I suspect that age really does trip up millennials: the widespread belief that Hillary isn't trustworthy. It's easy to understand why they might think this. After all, Hillary has been surrounded by a miasma of scandal for decades—and even if you vaguely know that a lot of the allegations against her weren't fair, well, where there's smoke there's fire. So if you're familiar with the buzzwords—Whitewater, Travelgate, Vince Foster, the Rose law firm, Troopergate, Ken Starr, Benghazi, Emailgate—but not much else, it's only human to figure that maybe there really is something fishy in Hillary's past.

But many of us who lived through this stuff have exactly the opposite view. Not only do we know there's almost literally nothing to any of these "scandals," we also know exactly how they were deliberately and cynically manufactured at every step along the way. We were there, watching it happen in real time. So not only do we believe Hillary is basically honest, but the buzzwords actively piss us off. Every time we hear a young progressive kinda sorta suggest that Hillary can't be trusted, we want to strangle someone. It's the ultimate proof of how the right wing's big lie about the Clintons has successfully poisoned not just the electorate in general, but even the progressive movement itself.

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As Abramson suggests, there are times when Hillary is her own worst enemy. The decades of attacks have made her insular and distrustful, and this often produces a lawyerly demeanor that makes her sound guilty even when she isn't. As a result, the belief in Hillary's slipperiness is now such conventional wisdom that it's almost impossible to dislodge. I just checked Memeorandum to see if anyone was discussing Abramson's piece, and I was unsurprised to find that it's gone almost entirely unnoticed.