Hillary excluded Margaret Thatcher from her book on gutsy women because she didn't 'try to make a positive difference'

Helping to take down the entire Soviet Union doesn’t qualify as making a positive difference, huh? That’s pretty rich coming from a woman who’s been running around lately screeching about “Russian assets.”

Maybe if Thatcher had stood up to someone really monstrous, like Donald Trump, Hillary would have been more impressed:

Hillary and Chelsea Clinton haven’t included Margaret Thatcher in their book of “gutsy” women@HillaryClinton tells @EmmaBarnett that Thatcher didn’t try to “make a positive difference” for other women

🎧Full interview: https://t.co/VqEUpMJ4jd#EmmaBarnettGetsAnswers pic.twitter.com/GDyYigC2pG

— BBC Radio 5 Live (@bbc5live) November 12, 2019

You can see that the British radio host is having none of it, and even Chelsea seems to concede that Thatcher made a hugely positive difference for women simply by becoming prime minister and showing it to be possible. “You can’t be what you can’t see,” as they say.

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I’m actually not sure I agree with that. The real trailblazers are people who believe something is possible when no one had done it before them. Like, say, Margaret Thatcher becoming prime minister of Great Britain when no woman had ever done it before. She couldn’t see it, so she just went ahead and did it.

But come on. That is obviously not the reason Hillary didn’t include Thatcher in the book. She didn’t include Thatcher in the book because Thatcher was a Conservative prime minister who believed in things like limited government and the essential role of a robust west in ensuring global freedom.

It’s legendary now that Thatcher worked closely with Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II to undermine and ultimately bring down the Soviet power structure that dominated Eastern Europe at the time. Reset Button Hillary can’t conceive of such a thing. She’s running around yelping to anyone who will listen about how the Russians are “interfering” with elections in the U.S. and now the U.K., but actually do something about it when you had the chance?

Say, that might irritate Vladimir Putin and jeopardize the Uranium One deal. We wouldn’t want that.

Margaret Thatcher gives the lie to Hillary Clinton’s entire persona. Hillary has been trying since the day Bill became president to convince everyone that’s she was the real superstar of that marriage. That she was the brains. That she had the toughness. That she was the visionary. That his presidency was little more than a setup for her inevitable one, and that would be the one that would change everything.

Hillary’s real problem here is that Margaret Thatcher actually was what Hillary has spent her entire public life pretending to be. Thatcher showed everyone – both men and women – how to do it. They called her the Iron Lady because she couldn’t be intimidated and she wouldn’t be pressured to cave on the things she knew really mattered.

She put her country ahead of herself and served 11 years as prime minister because she was a towering figure that no one else in either party could measure up to. She was a giant of her time.

That’s what Hillary has always wanted people to think she is, but she is very clearly and very obviously not that. And highlighting Margaret Thatcher’s triumphant career would only serve as an awkward contrast to Hillary’s disastrous one. That’s the real reason she’s not in the book.

Fortunately, there are plenty of places you can read about Margaret Thatcher’s towering legacy, and you won’t have to thumb through another awful Hillary Clinton book to do it.