In the scale of people bidding for influence her actual potential appears to be a great deal lower than the position requires. That merits being said as clearly as possible. Why? Because she has grabbed a lot of attention by appealing to (a) a lust for any kind of "bling" the party could possibly get and (b) the appetite of less discriminating voters for a brassy campaign of adversarial disdain, not to say hate, against other citizens. By catering to the loud, brazen, pugnacious, and unthinking segments of her party, she could gather enough momentum to capture some serious political power, despite the potential for abuse evidenced by her own ambitious, unthinking drive and her general lack of depth on issues.

To an important degree it is the duty of thinking citizens to point out why this is a bad idea for the country.

Aside from that duty, you are right, there is no virtue in bad-mouthing her excessively. She's not a harmful individual, just a very risky political figure.

The optimum path would be to leave her behind at the polls, and reunify the country around importanr issues carefully discussed and thought out.


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