What happened in the run-up to President Donald Trump has been debated so much online that the phrase “relitigating the 2016 election” is now a permanent fixture of the Twitter discussion.
You’d think it couldn’t be argued any further, but the conversation is getting one more voice. Trump’s opponent, Hillary Clinton, is writing a memoir of her campaign, due out in September. While we don’t yet know what it will say, she is promising an unguarded look.
“In the past, for reasons I try to explain, I’ve often felt I had to be careful in public, like I was up on a wire without a net. Now I’m letting my guard down.”
Today, the title of it was released, along with the above quote, from the book’s introduction. It’s called What Happened.
NEW: @HillaryClinton details the drama and devastation behind her 2016 election loss in new memoir "What Happened" https://t.co/9Y8auxNkJN pic.twitter.com/GVz9bJLwlm
— CBS Mornings (@CBSMornings) July 27, 2017
What happened is it got memed. Some felt that the title didn’t properly convey the befuddlement that the nation felt.
https://twitter.com/Kno/status/890527006445625344
But really, the online right reacted with glee, because they knew exactly what happened. Hillary lost, and there is never a bad time in their eyes for them to bring that up.
What happened?
— #ThePersistence (@ScottPresler) July 27, 2017
✔️Liar
✔️️Criminal
✔️Abandoned Wisconsin
✔️Called blacks super predators
✔️Called 1/2 America "deplorables"#HillaryClinton
https://twitter.com/ColeLedford11/status/890556368586932224
https://twitter.com/SonnyBunch/status/890573363462242305
https://twitter.com/polNewsForever/status/890569756608253952
https://twitter.com/BrooklynBrett/status/890585878430720004
https://twitter.com/knoxcop/status/890541131502637057
What happened, @HillaryClinton? I'll tell ya what happened. pic.twitter.com/XJPWlOob7F
— Alana Mastrangelo (@ARmastrangelo) July 27, 2017
Actor James Woods, a vocal conservative, was truly enjoying it.
Well, she lost. That's what happened. https://t.co/SUyMq22ZBr
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) July 27, 2017
WHAT HAPPENED by Hillary Clinton… pic.twitter.com/3SZin7fiPe
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) July 27, 2017
#WHATHAPPENED Well… pic.twitter.com/u0Ck7R5PN8
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) July 27, 2017
As for the left, since they couldn’t really add anything (because their side did lose), they just pared the cover up with Fred Willard’s character from A Mighty Wind, where he has a very similar catchphrase.
https://twitter.com/nkulw/status/890553223215546368
— David Weigel (@daveweigel) July 27, 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mqTV30yry8
That sure does sum it up.