The author Carlene Bauer says she is a historical research on Hillary Clinton and her advisers, and as such appears to be a Hillary expert.
The title of her article is
How Hillary Clinton’s Loyal Confidants Could Cost Her the Election.
Carlene believes that Hillary has a wall of people protecting her. I wonder if she attempted to email someone in her staff. I can't find it in the article - can you?
By now, the people who constitute the wall—a changing cast of characters over time, but some of them in place for a quarter-century—have built walls of their own and can be as hard to reach as Clinton herself. It is like the fortified Western Front after years of bloody stalemate. Try to penetrate, making your way across a landscape strewn with lethal briefing books, and you’ll come face-to-face with people who are authorized to speak but deliberately say nothing; people who know everything but deliberately never speak; and people who talk all the time but don’t know what they’re talking about. There has never been such a well-defended and battle-hardened candidate for president of the United States.
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It may have been built with an understandable purpose, but it now exists partly because it has been around for a long time, and living behind it has for Clinton become a part of whatever “normal” is for her. To a great degree, she is her staff and her staff is she. Most politicians maintain a separation between themselves and the people who work for them. The staff’s relationships with Hillary are co-dependent and intertwined. They’ve been protecting her for so long—sheltering her, telling her what to read and what not to read, praising her, and occasionally talking tough with her—it’s hard to tell who is running things. This campaign is like a Turing Test of whether Hillary is indeed herself.
Otherwise, this is the worst kind of journalism.