With the release of her new memoir, Hillary Clinton has come out of the woodwork back into the public eye after her devastating election loss in November. In some ways, "What Happened?" perfectly encapsulates why Hillary Clinton, and the Democrats overall, lost the election; but not for reasons explicitly laid out in the book. Because of this, a wave of criticism from the progressive left followed. In "What Happened?" Hillary Clinton does nothing but paint herself as the victim. Rather, she should have taken the high road and accepted her part in the matter. Because whether Hillary likes it or not, she's responsible for President Donald Trump.

Hillary and her neoliberal brigade would be willing to say anything to convince you that it was sexism, third party voters, non-voters, the "alt-left" (ironically a term originally coined by corporate Democrats to smear progressives) or even Bernie Sanders who lost her the election. In reality, Clinton was half of what made up the most unpopular election in American history. Insisting on belittling those you were supposed to be getting to vote for you is part of that. Refusing to adopt key policy issues the entire base of the Democratic party stands for is part of that. Pretending to be in touch with average Americans you couldn't more clearly be out of touch with is part of that. She - and nobody else - chose to stand for these unpopular policy positions. People want real change, not the fake neoliberal change touted by Hillary or most the other so-called Democrats. America chose to elect a reality tv host as President of the United States; and as much as I agree with those who make the popular vote count argument against the Electoral College, Hillary knew what she had to do. She decided to neglect campaigning in the rust belt states she ended up losing. This was her time and she blew it, there is no one else to blame but herself. Hillary's actions had consequences and she has yet to own up to those. In being too confident in herself and blind to how disliked she actually was, Hillary lost the thing she wanted most in this world. Now, we have to wake up every day and wonder "who's rights will be stripped from them today?" All because of her sense of entitlement and self aggrandizement.

How long is it going to take to get this type of Democrat to listen to us? We are the ones paying them, after all. They have the audacity to give us incremental reform like Obamacare over Medicare-for-All, for example; then they pat themselves on the back like they're our saving grace! Now's the time to give an actual progressive agenda a chance, because the numbers show that Americans would far prefer the progressive agenda to the neoliberal-corporatist one that the Democrats have put up year after year for the past two decades.

It's just disheartening that we still have to have this conversation. But unfortunately we will have to continue this dialogue because these Democrats will not give up their old tricks unless we keep holding them accountable. They will keep trying to put us down, gaslight us, invalidate us and pretend our voices can't be heard, just to ensure that they stay in power. We need to show these Democrats that they are suppose to work for us!

"What Happened?" highlighted that Hillary Clinton has learned absolutely nothing from the 2016 election. She still thinks progressives are the problem and the solution is worn-out democratic centrism. Some are speculating that this book is signaling another run for Hillary in 2020. Take it from me, Hillary, do not ever run again. Your time has passed; give a real progressive a chance. Be the politician people want you to be, do the electorate some good and go away. You're really only making things worse for your fellow Democrats.