Mmmm... actually my reading is she was deeply hated by many Americans for more reasons than that. I can't pretend to have my finger properly on the US pulse but I visit occasionally and have many friends and acquaintances there, Americans and immigrants. When I was there a few years ago, Clinton was in the rustbelt, a democrat area, and I was very surprised by the tone of her speach. It was pure Arther Scargill; workers rights, class war in flavour if not actual language. The voice was harsh and agrssive. I was shocked. Then on other occasions elsewhere the tone and content was quit different - liberal, knowing..... she gave me the impression of being someone prepared to say anything to win. I was delighted when Obama beat her. In the following years she dug in.... meanwhile, there is Bill.... nobody can deny he took advantage of his office. I agree he was subjected to inappropriate harassment (Starr was it?) and was humiliated over issues that previous presidents had far exceeded in terms of corruption and yet been let off by a knowing media (Kennedy, for example). Bill was crucified by a new republican conspiracy (th decade the republicans became feral animals....). But.... he was guilty. Hilary, by backing him, and benfiting from his financial murkiness, was guilty by association. Unfair, certainly. Whipped up by the new right, certainly. But for many Americans, Hilary is as toxic as Dianne Abbott is toxic here. Yes, the emails didn't help, but that was just the polish on the turd. Personally if I were eligible I would have voted for Clinton, but mostly because Trump is transparently far far worse, more venal, corrupt and despotic than Clinton (who is also all of these) and has no political experience and no ability to carry even his manifesto committments past the houses due to lack of network, even though they may have a republican majority. In that I seem to be right. I predicted (on here) Trump would win, not because Clinton was bad, certainly not because of the emails, but because enough stupid uninformed people driven by belief would be charmed by the hubristic patriotism and chutzpah of a guy prepared to say anything, apologize for nothing and (apparently) turn everything he touches to gold. Like Bob Maxwell.....perhaps. We shall see . . .sorry for the ramblings
Alternatively you could have just said:-
'After a black President, far too many American's just couldn't stomach the idea of a female President'.
Something that can clearly be backed up by the erosion of women's rights and the calibre of 45.
