Quotes from Jonathan Allen

Whatever strange brew led Parkhomenko to focus his entire life on Hillary's ascent, it

There is no compression algorithm for experience.

There was no room in his kingdom for the princes of the defunct super PAC. Once he'd extracted the group's lists, which he thought had limited value, they were done.

As one Democratic insider familiar with Mook's thinking put it, "When you're done with a condom, you throw it out.

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the summer of 2008, years before her private e-mail server became a campaign issue, Hillary learned about the power of digital snooping. At the time, she was conducting an autopsy of her failed bid against Barack Obama, and she wanted an honest accounting of what had gone wrong. So she instructed a trusted aide to access the campaign's server and download the messages sent and received by top staffers.

e-mailing the right people on the wrong system. But from a public relations perspective, the technicalities didn't matter. Hillary had told the nation that she didn't traffic in classified information, and government investigators put the lie to that assertion day after day. In

Hillary's aides didn't need to wonder why her economic message wasn't breaking through. It wasn't rocket science. She hadn't told the truth to the public about her e-mails, and she was under federal investigation.

It clearly wasn't the best choice. I should've used two emails—one personal, one for work," she said.

But when it came to her own behavior—to the threat she posed to herself—she'd been incapable of gauging its gravity and reluctant to avail herself of the only option for fixing it. Too little, too late, she'd now tried to address it.

Hillary didn't have a vision to articulate. And no one else could give one to her. In

camps could exert control over their delegates during

she thinks she's going to force me out of the race like this, she has another thing coming to her.

All of the jockeying might have been all right, but for a root problem that confounded everyone on the campaign and outside it. Hillary had been running for president for almost a decade and still didn't really have a rationale.

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preternaturally private

Hillary touched on the Methodist roots at the heart of her approach to private and public life. "Let us not grow weary in doing good," she said, paraphrasing Galatians 6:9, "for in due season, we shall reap if we do not lose heart.

After two brutal campaigns against Sanders and Trump, Hillary now had to explain the failure to friends in a seemingly endless round of phone calls. That was taking a toll on her already weary and grief-stricken soul. But

It's not actually the startups that are disrupting your organization, it's your customers' expectations

peroration—the

Senator Sanders wants to dismantle Obamacare, dismantle the CHIP program, dismantle Medicare, and dismantle private insurance," Chelsea said of Sanders's Medicare-for-all health care plan. "I don't want to empower Republican governors to take away Medicaid, to take away health insurance for low-income and middle-income working Americans. And I think very much that's what Senator Sanders' plan would do.

If you dislike change, you're going to dislike irrelevance even more.

But more important, the scapegoating tone and tenor revealed that the Clintons were either living on another planet or at least having emotional and intellectual difficulty coming to terms with the reality that only Hillary was culpable and only Hillary could turn things around.