I imagine Hillary Clinton wakes each morning and, after the few minutes it takes to shuffle to a mirror, she intones, “Good Morning, Madam President.” Since she appeared on the political stage, Hillary has lived in an alternate reality. From pretending she lived in a happy marriage to dodging sniper fire, Hillary has one consistent talent: an ability to ignore reality. She’s played a fictional character.

Hillary never let go of the debunked notion that Russia was the reason she augered in on Nov 8, 2016. She still pines over the presidency that never was. After her mirror greeting, one can picture Hillary spending the majority of her days reading fan mail, consisting of articles written about her “never-was” life.

Hillary Clinton is Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard — an embittered old woman who cannot and will not accept the fact that her time is over. The spotlight is dark. Her usefulness is a distant memory. Like Norma, Hillary bathes in phony praise. But praise she does get.

One of Hillary’s faithful fans is Molly Jong-Fast. Molly is a busy woman. She’s a go-to on MSNBC and writes for The Daily Beast and Vanity Fair among others. She also has over a million Twitter followers. Molly is also consistently wrong. On Thursday, Clinton tweeted about a Vanity Fair article penned by Jong-Fast in which Jong-Fast clanged the same clarion that every leftist has been banging since last Thursday. Jong-Fast claims that the Supreme Court is “rogue” and “illegitimate” principally because three of the Justices were appointed by Trump. Jong-Fast repeats the bogus claims offered by leftist mouthpieces like Politico and Media Matters that Justices appointed by Republicans are ethically compromised. Politico, Media Matters, and, by extension, Jong-Fast and Clinton offer no link between the constant baseless claims and Supreme Court decisions, but that isn’t the point. The point is to make the claim, knowing that most will not check the facts. The point is to enflame, not educate or inform.

For instance, Jong-Fast claims: “Neil Gorsuch [became] embroiled in scandal over his sale of a property to the head of a powerful law firm that has argued cases before the Supreme Court.”

That sounds ominous but isn’t accurate. Gorsuch didn’t sell the Colorado property at all. An LLP owned it, and Gorsuch had a 20 percent stake. He didn’t know who bought it. The law partner who bought it didn’t realize Gorsuch owned a stake, and that partner has never argued a case in the Supreme Court. But facts are not Jong-Fast’s strong suit. Hyperbolic nonsense is.

You won’t be shocked to know that Jong-Fast doesn’t mention that Sonia Sotomayor failed to recuse herself from cases involving a publisher that paid her $3.6 Million for her memoir. That is, in fact, a direct conflict, but Jong-Fast didn’t mention that. Odd, I know.

In Vanity Fair, Jong-Fast quotes a go-to leftist law professor suggesting that Congress can pull the purse strings of the third branch of government, defunding it, or “cancel” an entire term of the Supreme Court. Nothing like a third-world dictatorship.

Jong-Fast concludes with:

As Hillary Clinton predicted, we are now a country that needs protection from our rogue judiciary. Congress can provide this protection, but only if there is the will to. The American people need to continue to pressure our elected officials to hold this extremist and ethically challenged Court accountable before it’s too late—if it isn’t already.

Hillary, aka Norma Desmond, ever the drama queen, no doubt read Vanity Fair with approving eyes.

I still feel strongly that the Supreme Court needs to stand on the side of the American people, not on the side of corporations and the wealthy.https://t.co/yqM5AmDvqh

— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) July 6, 2023

Perhaps that irritating Hillary head-bob and the glass-shattering crackle followed her read. Maybe Hillary thought that if there were enough Jong-Fasts to stretch the truth or outright lie, she might still have a chance to be president.

Did Hillary find a mirror and tilt her head and say: “I’m ready for my close-up”?