Well, you could argue that even that worked out to her benefit. If the Kremlin hadn't overridden the will of the American people, and Clinton had become president, what would that have meant to her? It would have meant at least four years of constant investigation and brutal attacks from the right, of course. It would have meant working herself into an early grave, with little time to spend with her growing grandchildren. It would also have meant inviting the dislike of the kinds of people who currently admire her (feminists and liberals can embrace her now, when they're free to romanticize what a Clinton administration would have been like, but if she were actually in power, she'd be making compromises that would piss them off, getting her hammered from the left as well as the right). There's no honest question that the American people would have been much better off if she'd won. But would Clinton? I suspect not. Despite the initial disappointment, I bet she'll live a happier and more fulfilling life for having lost. It sucks for us, but not for her. It appears to be our bad karma at work.