Who Are The "THEY" In This?

From The Hill:

Former Secretary of State and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton accepted her defeat on election night by saying that Americans were never going to elect her president, according to a new book by a New York Times reporter.

"I knew it. I knew this would happen to me," Clinton reportedly said, according to excerpts from a new book published in The Daily Beast. "They were never going to let me be president."

Notice where the quotation marks are and where they are not: The claim by The Hill is that Hillary Clinton means "Americans" when she says "they". I find this implausible, though very charitable, compared with the more obvious answer. I say implausible because of the way American English works: We say and think American voters are choosing their representative, not letting somebody be president.

Hillary has the worst luck, but the best friends one could want in the MSM. It was just her luck that she invoked the "Vast Right Wing Conspiracy" in defense of her husband (in light of fresh sexual misconduct accusations against the president). A blue stained dress would cement the truth, Bill Clinton did indeed have sexual relations with that woman, Monica Lewinsky. A normal person would count her blessings that the MSM was so amnesia prone. A normal person would hope nobody would remember her hilariously wrong claim about conspiracy, but no, not Hillary. She invoked it in 2016! Is she trying to remind the voters of what a shameless liar she is? Or is she just that cynical and counts on the MSM to cover for her. they did

So Hillary Clinton had it right when she made her famous declaration that a “vast right-wing conspiracy” was out to get her and her husband. The opposition was and is passionate. It is well financed. It sees dark — sometimes preposterous — motives in nearly everything the Clintons do.

And counts on our lack of memory: But, we all remember TVRWC was a way of boldly placing a marker saying the sexual misconduct charges were false, but we all remember that the charges turned out to be correct. So, what conclusion can we come to: Hillary is either (for real) insane or she has discovered heretofore unplumbed depths of cynicism. Either way, it is clear that THEY in

"They were never going to let me be president."

Is that old and recurring bogyman, The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy.