The last thing the left needs is the third iteration of a failed political dynasty.
Amid investigations into Russian election interference, perhaps we ought to consider whether the Kremlin, to hurt Democrats, helped put Chelsea Clinton on the cover of Variety. Or maybe superstition explains it. Like tribesmen laying out a sacrifice to placate King Kong, news outlets continue to make offerings to the Clinton gods. In The New York Times alone, Chelsea has starred in multiple features over the past few months: for her tweeting (it?s become ?feisty?), for her upcoming book (to be titled She Persisted), and her reading habits (she says she has an ?embarrassingly large? collection of books on her Kindle). With Chelsea?s 2015 book, It?s Your World, now out in paperback, the puff pieces in other outlets?Elle, People, etc.?are too numerous to count.
One wishes to calm these publications: You can stop this now. Haven?t you heard that the great Kong is no more? Nevertheless, they?ve persisted. At great cost: increased Chelsea exposure is tied closely to political despair and, in especially intense cases, the bulk purchasing of MAGA hats. So let?s review: How did Chelsea become such a threat?
Perhaps the best way to start is by revisiting some of Chelsea?s major post-2008 forays into the public eye. Starting in 2012, she began to allow glossy magazines to profile her, and she picked up speed in the years that followed. The results were all friendly in aim, and yet the picture that kept emerging from the growing pile of Chelsea quotations was that of a person accustomed to courtiers nodding their heads raptly. Here are Chelsea?s thoughts on returning to red meat in her diet: ?I?m a big believer in listening to my body?s cravings.? On her time in the ?fiercely meritocratic? workplace of Wall Street: ?I was curious if I could care about [money] on some fundamental level, and I couldn?t.? On her precocity: ?They told me that my father had learned to read when he was three. So, of course, I thought I had to too. The first thing I learned to read was the newspaper.? Take that, Click, Clack, Moo.
Chelsea, people were quietly starting to observe, had a tendency to talk a lot, and at length, not least about Chelsea. But you couldn?t interrupt, not even if you?re on TV at NBC, where she was earning $600,000 a year at the time. ?When you are with Chelsea, you really need to allow her to finish,? Jay Kernis, one of Clinton?s segment producers at NBC, told Vogue. ?She?s not used to being interrupted that way.?
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