If the so-called Hollywood resistance truly wants to dethrone Donald Trump in 2020, it should now lavish Hillary Clinton with lucrative development deals, publishing contracts, TV shows, film roles, standup gigs — anything that will keep her safely away from another presidential run.Give her a late-night talk show. Give her Netflix specials. Give her a movie-of-the-week, every week, until the next U.S. election is over. Give her a pop-cultural platform with the WWE or Marvel or Hallmark: “Rowdy Rodham To Headline Washington Smackdown.” “Hillary Clinton is ... Captain America’s Mom.” “Special Edition HRC Condolence Cards, Perfect For Anyone Who Botched A Sure Thing.” Do whatever it takes to distract her from public office.You ever read something where, immediately afterwards, you feel compelled to call a scientist at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, just to make sure you haven’t tumbled through a crack in the space-time continuum? You ever contemplate a prospect so frozen in a hellish loop it makes you feel like you’re in Groundhog Day, only except of Bill Murray and Andie McDowell, all you see is Bill and Hillary Clinton cackling from a porch swing in Chappaqua, vowing to regain power? You ever think: No, just no?That’s how I felt after reading an op-ed in Sunday’s Wall Street Journal.Related:Hillary and Bill Clinton’s tour comes to Toronto on Nov. 27Jean Chrétien’s thoughts on a round of golf with Bill Clinton, and the bogeyman TrumpOpinion | Rick Salutin: What Blake tells us about Trump’s liesWritten by Mark Penn, a senior adviser to the Clintons from 1995-2008, and Andrew Stein, a former Democratic Manhattan borough president, the headline sounded like a threat: “Hillary Will Run Again.”That’s like saying, “The Hurricane Is Returning” or “Ebola Cure Didn’t Work.”It carries the staccato promise of disaster squared. O ...
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