How to alienate, well, just about everybody

Hillary Clinton seems to have launched yet another political campaign — a campaign to convince Americans they absolutely did the right thing by not electing her president.

Which is not to say the election winner has turned out to be ideal.

But Clinton's ongoing public struggle with herself is alienating even supporters, and it's crippling the required remodeling and rejuvenation of her aged Democratic Party, which needs a long rehab at some political spa.

The only things Democrats have going for them right now is an undisciplined president and Republican disunity.

But there's no end in sight for Clinton's self-imposed scab-picking; she has not one but two books coming out this fall that will put her on stage after stage across the country with obsequious hosts feeding the Clinton ego with continuous curiosity about her thoughts and doings.

Oh, and how in the world could Donald Trump have won?

At some point you'd think a remorseless Clinton might run out of people, countries and conspiracies to blame for the historic upset in November. It was truly a devastating loss, the most shocking since Tom Dewey's unanticipated flop in 1948. It's understandable, if ominous, that the wannabe commander-in-chief was shattered and unable to appear election night.

She lost because "for whatever reason" FBI Director James Comey reopened the investigation into her e-mail scandal just before the election.

She lost because of the Russians. You know, the people she helped gain control of 20 percent of U.S. uranium, the folks who paid her husband a small fortune for one speech.

She lost because of American misogyny.

She lost because of big money, even though hers was by far the biggest money. And she got pretty big bucks for her closed Wall Street speeches.

She lost because of the media.

And she lost because the Democratic National Committee — the happily hackable crowd that was quietly subverting the primary campaign of her nomination competitor Sen. Bernie Sanders — was useless and bankrupt.

She actually lost because of a quarter-century of political baggage and scandals. But she doesn't say that because it's the truth.

She lost because even after all of this ambition-fueled plotting, no one on her staff would hand her a rationale for why she should be president. But she doesn't say that because, shouldn't the candidate herself have an inkling about that?

She lost because of that darned Comey investigation. But wait! He'd have had nothing to investigate if she herself hadn't ignored official warnings and constructed an illicit, unsecured private e-mail server to dodge public transparency during her government service. Clinton and aides were wheeling and dealing favors for Clinton Foundation donors and sharing national security secrets like teen girls texting prom gossip.

The 69-year-old lost because, despite years of practice, she was just a terrible, maladroit campaigner who could not stop coughing and collapsed on national TV.

"I take responsibility for everything I got wrong," Clinton proclaimed last week in her best bid at introspection. "But that's not why I lost."