In an interview with The Washington Free Beacon, iconic feminist author Camille Paglia unloaded on two-time failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton for her exploitation of feminism. Paglia, a registered Democrat who voted for Green Party candidate Jill Stein in the 2016 election, smacked down the notion that the former secretary of state was a victim of rampant sexism which caused her defeat, blasting Hillary for her treatment of her husband’s sexual targets during his years in office.
The author also took a swipe at leftist hero and imaginary Indian chief Elizabeth Warren. Per Paglia, Warren is “no populist,” only an “opportunist.”
“Misogyny played no significant role whatever in Hillary Clinton’s two defeats as a presidential candidate. This claim is such a crock! What a gross exploitation of feminism…”
-Camille Paglia
“Misogyny played no significant role whatever in Hillary Clinton’s two defeats as a presidential candidate,” Paglia told the Free Beacon. “This claim is such a crock! What a gross exploitation of feminism — in the service of an unaccomplished woman whose entire career was spent attached to her husband’s coat tails. Hillary was handed job after job but produced no tangible results in any of them — except of course for her destabilization of North Africa during her rocky tenure as secretary of state.”
The feminist continued to blast Hillary, highlighting the former New York Senator’s lack of service to women and children, whom Hillary contends she stands for.
“And for all her lip service to women and children, what program serving their needs did Hillary ever conceive and promote?” she asked. “She routinely signed on to other people’s programs or legislative bills but spent the bulk of her time in fundraising and networking for her own personal ambitions.”
Paglia also rebuked Hillary for something most feminists turn a blind eye to: her despicable treatment of her husband’s victims.
“I fail to see how authentic feminism can ever be ascribed to a woman who turned a blind eye to the victims of her husband’s serial abuse and workplace seductions,” she said. “The hypocrisy of feminist leaders was on full display during the Monica Lewinsky scandal, which incontrovertibly demonstrated Bill Clinton’s gross violation of basic sexual harassment policy. Although I had voted for him twice, I was the only feminist at the time who publicly condemned Clinton for his squalid and unethical behavior with an intern whose life (it is now clear) he ruined. Gloria Steinem’s slick casuistry during that shocking episode did severe damage to feminism, from which it has never fully recovered.”
Then Paglia was asked about a possible Elizabeth Warren candidacy in 2020. She was less than enthused:
“What an arrant hypocrite! Warren stands for nothing but Warren.”
-Camille Paglia
“Elizabeth Warren, a smug Harvard professor, is no populist,” stated Paglia. “She doesn’t have an iota of Bernie Sanders’ authentic empathic populism — but Sanders will be too old to run next time around. I tried to take Warren seriously during the run-up to the primaries, but her outrageous silence about Sanders’ candidacy when he was battling the corrupt Hillary machine made me see Warren as the facile opportunist that she is. She craftily hid from sight throughout the primaries — until Hillary won the nomination. Then all of a sudden, there was bouncy, grinning Warren, popping in and out of Hillary’s Washington mansion as vice-presidential possibilities were being vetted. What an arrant hypocrite! Warren stands for nothing but Warren.”
Paglia says she’d hoping California Senator Kamala Harris will run in 2020, describing her as someone “who seems to have far more character and substance than Warren.”