Hillary Clinton is lonely. Oh so lonely. Then again, she is married to Bill…

The Atlantic published an op-ed with her name on it yesterday titled “The Weaponization of Loneliness.” Needless to say, it caught our eye.

If Hillary — with all the earnestness, “worry,” “concern,” and feigned human emotion her notoriously robotic self could muster — wrote the essay, was it actually AI-generated content? Asking for a friend.

The author of It Takes a Village is back on that theme, mostly it seems to sell more copies of her book (link at the bottom!). The subtitle says it: “To defend America against those who would exploit our social disconnection, we need to rebuild our communities.”

Before even reading the first sentence, our immediate thought was about coronavirus lockdowns, primarily instituted, perpetuated, and ruthlessly enforced by Democrats. To be fair, Donald Trump via Anthony Fauci was in on it at the beginning too, but he and other Republicans quickly reopened where they could.

Speaking of Trump, that’s exactly where the bitterly clinging Clinton begins. “The question that preoccupied me and many others over much of the past eight years is how our democracy became so susceptible to a would-be strongman and demagogue,” she opined. Actually, she admits, she’s been harping on this a bit longer than eight years, as she then added with a smirk and a wink, “The ‘vast right-wing conspiracy’ has been of compelling interest to me for many years.”

The real point of her article, however, is Surgeon General Vivek Murthy’s May advisory about an “epidemic of loneliness and isolation,” which he swears began even before COVID. He’s not entirely wrong, of course, and neither is Clinton to be concerned about it. She points to the same data as Murthy:

Americans who use social media for more than two hours a day are twice as likely to experience loneliness and feelings of social isolation as people who used social media for less than 30 minutes a day. As we spend more time online, we spend less time interacting with one another in person or engaging with our local communities. The more we live in social-media echo chambers, the less we trust one another, and the more we struggle to find common ground with or feel empathy for people who have different perspectives and experiences.

Worse, the suicide rate among young people has skyrocketed, which Clinton rightly says “should shake us to our core.”

It’s indeed ironic that the rise of social media in particular has actually resulted in Americans being less socially connected to our communities than we used to be. That’s a real problem, and it has almost certainly contributed to the polarization in our nation, as well as suicide and other related mental problems like the prevalence of “transgender” ideology among young people.

But yeah, about that.

Which major political party is thuggishly silencing conversation on social media via weaponized censorship of the other major political party? Which is the party of groomers and permanent victimization?

Surely Clinton is not ignorant of the fact that she and her party have caused an awful lot of isolation. She called half the country a “basket of deplorables,” for crying out loud. “Racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic — you name it,” she scoffed. A huge factor in isolation and polarization is the routine demagoguery and name-calling of leftists like Clinton, who are increasingly pushing “progress” with ever-more-radical proposals that no one even conceived of, much less thought were normal or right, just a few short years ago. If you don’t go along with the new-fangled social concoction, you’re the bigot.

The Clintons are infamous for projection — the practice of doing something, usually awful and obnoxious, and then blaming Republicans for doing that very thing. Heck, she even threw in an oblique reference to the “Russian collusion” conspiracy hoax she started by lamenting “malign foreign influence in our elections.”

Sure enough, Clinton identifies the culprits for all this isolation as right-wingers. She dredges up the worst examples she can find of crazy conspiracy theories and violence to insist that a handful of kooks represent the whole and are driving the problem. But just for good measure, she names everyone from Newt Gingrich to Rush Limbaugh to Steve Bannon to Alex Jones.

“Without a doubt, winning elections at every level is essential,” she argues. “We need to defeat the demagogues and election deniers so convincingly that there’s no room for dirty tricks.”

Demagogues and election deniers like her?

Once Democrats win elections, she promises they can … proceed to enact all the laundry list of divisive policy changes they usually clamor for.

How predictable. Indeed, back to that idea of an AI-generated essay, would that version actually be any different?

Shorter Hillary: Loneliness is bad and the Bad Orange Man did it. Silencing anyone who even kinda likes him and then coming together in a village to support leftist Big Government will fix it. The end.

The truth is that leftists — even Hillary — can often correctly diagnose a problem. However, they’re usually wrong about the causes and virtually always wrong with the solutions. No wonder they’d rather isolate you and never talk about it.