Hillary Clinton is intelligent, usually competent and rational and she genuinely pushes a number of progressive causes - but she is also a representative of the corporate elite, a warmonger and more than averagely corrupt for a career politician. Had she been elected in 2016 the USA would have maintained most of the Obama course (for good and bad) and would have remained the primary imperialist power in the world at the heart of all the alliances and agencies that support that. She is well to the right in the Democratic Party.

I agree that symbolically a Clinton presidency would have changed perceptions about gender roles - as Obama's victory did about racial glass ceilings. That would have been a major positive.

There seems to be a new batch of books and documentaries (maybe some re-releases) coming out that are giving Hillary Clinton a PR polish - maybe to emphasise the difference in ability and character with Trump. I would have Clinton or Biden any day over Trump and his white supremacist gang of crooks - but both of them are deeply flawed and dangerous (just not as dangerous as Trump). Don't buy into the spin.