The former presidential candidate’s new book,What Happened, tries to come to terms with her election defeat and likens Trump to the dystopian classicOpinion: Clinton’s book has a clear message: don’t blame meHillary Clinton uses her new memoir to draw parallels between Donald Trump’s “war on truth” and the Soviet Union and George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Attempting to define reality is a core feature of authoritarianism, and ” the defeated presidential candidate writes in What Happened,published on Tuesday. “This is what the Soviets did when they erased political dissidents from historical photos. This is what happens in George Orwell’s classic novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, when a torturer holds up four fingers and delivers electric shocks until his prisoner sees five fingers as ordered.” Related: Hillary Clinton: misogyny 'certainly' played a role in 2016 election loss Related: White House as crime scene: how Robert Mueller is closing in on Trump Now people seemed to believe I was evil. Not just ‘not my cup of tea’ but evil. It was flabbergasting and frightening Related: A night of shattered dreams: inside election day with Hillary Clinton Clinton on Trump's inaugural address: 'I heard it as a howl straight from the white nationalist intestine'Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com