The past ten days have emphasized the long arc of Hillary Clinton’s campaign. On June 9th, President Obama’s endorsement bound her candidacy to his Presidency, and bound the three major figures of recent Democratic Party history (one Obama, two Clintons) together, too. “I don’t think there’s ever been someone so qualified to ever hold this office,” Obama said. Then, on Tuesday, the President gave a blistering speech against Donald Trump at the Treasury Department, and Clinton, speaking at the same time, in Pittsburgh, echoed him, nearly word for word. Obama promised himself as an eager surrogate, and Clinton’s staffers quickly made use of the White House photo archives: two leaders together, confronting crises.
This isn’t usually how it goes—in past few election cycles, the outgoing President has been shunned by his Party’s candidate. On the eve of the 2000 election, Bill Clinton lamented that Al Gore never called; George W. Bush appeared at exactly one campaign event with John McCain in 2008. During the 2008 election, Obama and the Clintons seemed to represent two distinct Democratic camps, but over the past eight years the distance between them has collapsed—in staff, in policy, and in the relationship between the President and the successor he wants. If Clinton wins the election, the ideas that moved through the Administrations of Bill Clinton and Obama will have dominated American politics for almost three decades. For the full article click here
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