Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made headlines this week when she lambasted her fellow Democrats for failing to take seriously Republicans’ pledges to overturn Roe v. Wade. In Clinton’s telling, the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision to overturn abortion rights is the direct result of powerful Democrats failing to hear the anti-abortion freight train barreling toward them.

Interestingly, the former presidential hopeful doesn’t include herself in the list of high-powered national Democrats who underestimated how committed Republicans truly were to winding the clock back half a century on women's rights. That’s a convenient bit of political amnesia, and one that allows Clinton and the centrist establishment she represents to shift blame for their disastrous missteps onto others.

Clinton’s narrative lays the blame for America’s current abortion rights nightmare at the feet of everyone from Donald Trump to her fellow Democratic lawmakers to an electorate she claims didn’t take her warnings seriously in 2016. Far from being a boost to her party’s defense of reproductive rights, Clinton’s comments are a reminder that centrist, corporate Democrats are just as myopic as ever.

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