Hillary Clinton Suggests Conservative Christian White Men Are ‘Doing Such Damage’ to America

Hillary Clinton’s secret to a “more perfect union”? Marginalize conservative Christian white men.

When MSNBC “Morning Joe” co-host Mika Brzezinski asked the former first lady and secretary of state whether America is “still headed toward a ‘more perfect union’” on Wednesday, Clinton attacked conservatives as the reason why the country’s progress is “on pause.”

“I think right now we’re on pause,” she replied. “Some people are actually scared about what’s going on in our country.”

“The idea of ‘We the People,’ that all men and women are created equal, that seems to be in the crosshairs of those on the Right who want to turn the clock back on the progress that has been made, writing out huge chunks of our history: slavery, suffrage, anything inconvenient, you know, take it out of museums, take it out of national parks,” Clinton claimed.

“I love my country, and I love it, you know, warts and all,” she added, referring to the U.S. as “a work in progress.”

Clinton then condemned “the idea that you could turn the clock back and try to recreate a world that never was, dominated by, you know let’s say it—white men of a certain persuasion, a certain religion, a certain point of view, a certain ideology.”

“It’s just doing such damage to what we should be aiming for,” she added.

Erasing History?

Clinton left a few clues as to which people she was condemning as a threat to America becoming a “more perfect union.”

First, she condemned “those on the Right” who want to remove “huge chunks of our history.” She suggested conservatives want to excise slavery, women’s suffrage, or “anything inconvenient” from America’s history.

This is a gross mischaracterization of the conservative response to the Left’s Marxist reinterpretation of American history.

In recent years, an “anti-racism” movement, following writers like Ibram X. Kendi, has reinterpreted American history based on the assumption that the U.S. is structurally racist, despite the progress of civil rights laws. Kendi claims that racial disparities are ipso facto proof of hidden racial bias or discrimination and that America needs an overhaul of its major institutions. This idea comes from critical race theory, a Marxist lens that sees black people as inherently oppressed and white people as oppressors—and calls for a revolution in society.

This radical ideology has rightly shocked Americans. For instance, conservatives demanded the Smithsonian remove a graphic that equated oppressive “whiteness” with the nuclear family, science, capitalism, and the Judeo-Christian tradition. The graphic not only condemned this “whiteness,” but urged “people of color” to combat “aspects of white culture” that they have “internalized.” The New York Times’ 1619 Project tried to redefine American history, stating that the country’s “true founding” didn’t come with the Declaration of Independence but with the arrival of black slaves.

Combating this ideology in classrooms and museums does not equate to removing slavery or women’s suffrage from the history books, and Clinton knows this. She’s spreading a blatant lie to demonize conservatives as somehow racist, misogynistic, and anti-intellectual.

‘A Certain Religion’

Clinton’s second clue about the identity of the ideological and religious group she attacked involves her claim that it aims to “turn the clock back” to “recreate” not a moment in time but “a world that never was,” dominated by a specific type of white men.

She’s suggesting that conservatives want to return to the values associated with the 1950s: strong families headed by male breadwinners in a booming economy with Christian values.

This suggests—if her reference to the Right already hadn’t—that she means conservative Christians, those who disagree with the Left’s socially liberal agenda of transgender activism and critical race theory.

Clinton was, surprise surprise, returning to the “basket of deplorables” rhetoric of demonizing conservatives as a drag on the country.

This kind of rhetoric may have hurt her in the 2016 election, but it resonates widely on the Left.

It’s the same kind of claim that brings the Southern Poverty Law Center its bread and butter—mainstream conservative and Christian groups are actually driven by hate. Moms and dads who want a say in their kids’ education actually oppose “inclusion” in schools. Conservatives who want to close the border and enforce immigration law just hate foreigners.

The Left loves to tell itself these things because if it can chalk up all criticisms of its ideology to “hate,” it doesn’t have to deal with inconvenient facts. It doesn’t have to wrestle with how “affirmative action” often discriminates against Asians. It doesn’t have to answer for transgender ideology undermining girls’ privacy in bathrooms and fair competition in sports. It doesn’t have to admit that its policies harbored the illegal immigrants who killed Laken Riley and Kate Steinle.

So long as the Left can blame conservative Christian white men for all of America’s evils, it can postpone the reckoning America faces because of its own policies.

Even better, it can constantly claim that the Left needs to take power because the only alternative is hateful, oppressive, or “authoritarian.” Never mind that political violence is rising from the Left.

It seems Hillary Clinton still hasn’t learned the lesson Americans tried to teach her in 2016.

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