political life and the legacy of the Obama administration carried on, unabated by the inconvenient meddling of reality itself. Instead, it opened a political pocket universe – a vacuum where Clinton was president, the Democrats still ruled the roost of U.S. The ensuing election of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States did little to shatter this delusion. It also signalled the smug assuredness inherent in the belief that a Trump presidency wasn’t just unlikely, but utterly unfathomable the comfort of a collective delusion. Hillary’s First 100 Days – and similar pieces emerging in the months before the fateful 2016 presidential election – spoke to a confidence in Clinton’s victory that borders (with hindsight) on arrogance. Looking back, Mandel’s imagined index of the would-be president’s accomplishments seems pathetic, even beyond its spurious claims to funniness. Sixty-three pantsuits sent to cleaners.” On Day 100, Libya rebrands as a Westernized democracy. Day 33: Russia invades the United States, and is handily defeated. Day 5: Clinton plans a “girls’ weekend” with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Written by Veep showrunner David Mandel, the speculative fiction in question imagined the first 100 days of a Hillary Clinton presidency. 9, 2016, The New York Times published a piece that, needless to say, did not age particularly well. Hope Never Dies: An Obama Biden Mystery.
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