2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumIf this election season was a movie script...
The way the Clinton campaign seems to want this movie written is that this an action movie, perhaps even a horror movie. The title of the movie is "Trump" and the hero is Hillary Clinton.
Trump is on the rampage, a 'Darth Vader' figure building his Death Wall, threatening more and more violence. The whole first part of the movie is just Trump as villain. Hillary is not even on screen much until after the primaries and then she emerges. Her goodness is defined only by Trump's badness -- Trump is sexist, Hillary fights him for all women. Trump is racist, Hillary uses the power of diversity to defeat him, etc.
That is the movie they wanted but there is a problem now.
An Obi Wan Kenobi figure has somehow wandered into the movie. He charms random birds and has spiritual friends in exotic places. The audience thinks Obi Wan Kesanders will be better against Trump and now the Hillary hero is angry. She says things like "Obi Wan Kesanders is not a true Rebel...I am out raising money (from the Empire) for the um, Rebels and he isn't." "Let's see Obi Wan's tax returns!"
Then Obi Wan releases his tax returns and they show less income in one year than Hillary got for one secret speech to the Empire.
Obviously the script needs some work...
hueymahl
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