No, Hillary Clinton isn’t a Republican — but the resemblance is striking

Hillary Clinton, Richard Nixon (Credit: Reuters/Andrew Kelly/AP/Photo montage by Salon)
Beinart on Cold War liberalism
You don’t have to look far on the American left to find accusations that Hillary Clinton is essentially a Republican, or almost a Republican, or simply too damn close to being a Republican. At least I don’t: I’ve done it myself, very recently, in a throwaway jibe partway through a recent article on the GOP’s spectacular implosion. I was aware, even as I w