The Errant Æsthete

With the final democratic debate scheduled for tonight, the incomparable Frank Rich of the NY Times reviews the damaging days of the Clinton campaign in “The Audacity of Hopelessness:

“The single biggest factor in Hillary Clinton’s collapse is less sexism in general than one man in particular — the man who began the campaign as her biggest political asset. The moment Bill Clinton started trash-talking about Mr. Obama and raising the specter of a co-presidency, even to the point of giving his own televised speech ahead of his wife’s on the night she lost South Carolina, her candidacy started spiraling downward.”