Hillary Clinton flawed; put wires underground.

Hillary Clinton is a serious, if flawed, public servant. One of her problems is that, along with many liberals, she exists within an opaque bubble. The bubble provides comfort, elitism and ideological snobbery as reflected in the desire to castigate the source of objectionable ideas that rattle and roil progressive comfort zones rather than tackle the ideas exclusively.

Thus, her characterization of Trump supporters as deplorable and irredeemable.

Her latest book-length attempt to deflect much responsibility for her historic loss exemplifies this disreputable practice as she blames Vladimir Putin, James Comey, Bernie Sanders, you and me and the bogeyman behind the tree.

The postmodern progressive cannot be wrong and cannot be shamed. If a favored electoral platform fails to carry the broader population, it is never because the ideas are flawed, but rather because it was not explained effectively, torpedoed by nefarious enemies or, as likely, the stupidity of the non-bubble crowd.

And it follows that if there are exemplary people within the body politic — flawless people like Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Elizabeth Warren for instance — there must be others warranting derision. That’s where you and I come in, for we are stodgy and decidedly oldfashioned.

Let’s face it: We are caught in a time warp. We find postmodern progressive dogma inimical to reality as we know it, an intolerable transgression to the bubble crowd, as is an electoral loss to a candidate like Donald Trump. Paul Bloustein Cincinnati, Ohio