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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s latest book is a flop, selling only 27,000 copies in its first week, according to the Washington Free Beacon.

That’s significantly less than the 167,000 copies of her previous book, “What Happened,” that were sold in the first week after its release in 2017.

Speaking of “what happened,” what exactly happened here with her book’s latest sales?

Critics like the Beacon’s Andrew Stiles say this latest book is just “another memoir about how unfair it was that she lost to Donald Trump and why you still owe her an apology for being right about everything.”

“These days, I find myself thinking mostly about the future,” she writes in the book.  “Time and so many battles won and lost have given me a thicker skin and a stiffer spine.”

She goes on to tout the “pang of vindication” she felt when Trump was convicted in the hush money case. And she predictably relitigates the 2016 presidential election.

“A fraud was committed against the American people, against all of us,” she writes. “I would have won. … Even now, just thinking about that moment makes fury well up in my chest.”

As previously reported courtesy of an excerpt from the book that was published in the Washington Post, she also doubles down on the anti-Trump bigotry that she displayed in 2016.

“In 2016, I famously described half of Trump’s supporters as ‘the basket of deplorables,’” she writes. “I was talking about the people who are drawn to his racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia, Islamophobia — you name it. The people for whom his bigotry is a feature, not a bug.”

“It was an unfortunate choice of words and bad politics, but it also got at an important truth. Just look at everything that has happened in the years since, from Charlottesville to Jan. 6. The masks have come off, and if anything, ‘deplorable’ is too kind a word for the hate and violent extremism we’ve seen from some Trump supporters,” she adds.

Aside from the usual attacks on Republicans, the book does, to its credit, contain some criticism of the left — for example, the left’s ongoing anti-Israel protests.

According to the New York Times, Clinton writes in the book how she was “struck by how little history of the region most of our students had been exposed to.”

“History matters,” she continues. “Context matters. Especially in such a difficult and complex crisis, where nothing is black and white and enmities go back decades if not millennia.”

“If we don’t educate ourselves — and not just through propaganda or snippets of video served up by an algorithm controlled by the Chinese Communist Party on TikTok — we can’t form good judgments or advocate effectively for smart policies. That’s not just true for young people; it’s true for all of us, including policymakers in Washington,” she adds.

As for criticism of the book, it isn’t just coming from the right. The Guardian, a far-left publication, has a review out by Peter Conrad bemoaning how “[t]he woman who hoped to become America’s first female president seems unable to accept her 2016 defeat, coming across in this memoir as uptight and grandiose.”

“What Hillary Clinton lost was her chance to be the first female US president; what she has gained in the eight years since that wrenching disappointment is less clear,” the review reads. “‘My life is richer and my spirit is stronger,’ she insists, but her new book, Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty, reveals her to be also the victim of lingering PTSD.”

“Brooding about her defeat, she muddles the five-step grieving process and alternates between denial and anger, bargaining and depression. As yet, despite walks in the woods and romps with her grandchildren, she seems not to have arrived at acceptance,” it continues.

Ouch.

Vivek Saxena
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