High Politics

Last summer—otherwise known, in election time, as a long time ago, in a land far away—when Hillary Clinton unveiled her campaign, she was positioning herself as the inheritor of FDR, championing the little guy and inveighing against…economic inequality.

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But that was June. This is February. And Clinton now has a candidate to beat who takes these ideas seriously. So what does she do? She declares that it’s not the economy, stupid, that Sanders is too focused on the billionaires and wages. Now she’s channeling Goldwater, claiming that Sanders is too fixated on economics, and complaining that Sanders’s proposals will cost too much money and expand the size of government.

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June was FDR Month, February is Goldwater Month, what will we see in the fall?

  Corey Robin

We'll just have to wait. But there's a spring and summer to go first. She could win an olympic gold medal for the backflips and contortions she might do by that time.