Two years into her tenure as secretary of state, Hillary Clinton was described in a profile as “the good little Methodist girl” by an unnamed White House staffer. It wasn’t a compliment. The critic of our nation’s top diplomat condescendingly painted her as a practical and lightweight leader; “In the end she’ll have her list of the nine or 10 things she has to do and check them off one by one.”
Criticism of Secretary Clinton as a pragmatic “doer” implies she’s not a revolutionary change-maker. That criticism continues today as she faces, for the second time, a Democratic primary opponent who makes sweeping claims about transforming our entire political system.
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