In an interview last week with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour at a Women for Women International event, Clinton described herself as “back to being an activist citizen and part of the resistance.”
Setting aside what period of her life Clinton considers her “activist citizen” past — That time she and Bill crossed a picket line on their first date? The days when she could get away with calling black kids “superpredators”? — what will Sister Hillary’s activism entail?
For starters, she is building a new political organization. The group, expected to be called Onward Together (a play on her campaign slogan “Stronger Together”), will focus on sending money to organizations “working on the resistance to President Donald Trump’s agenda.” It’s too early to tell what that actually means, but judging by those on the Onward Together team, it looks to be more of the same top-down strategy.
Clinton has brought on Dennis Cheng, her campaign’s finance director and one-time chief development officer of the Clinton Foundation, and has named Minyon Moore to the new organization’s board. Cheng spent much of 2016 escorting Clinton to some of the country’s richest locales, with Silicon Valley, Beverly Hills, and the Hamptons among the duo’s stops (presumably the Rust Belt was unworthy of Cheng’s attention). Moore works as a lobbyist for the Dewey Square Group, which helped subprime lender Countrywide win wide influence among DC politicians.
So much for “the resistance.”