This is by Establishment standards, of course, not just of the Democratic Party Establishment, but of the trans-partisan insider core of the Establishment.
This is because she is one of them. America thus has an incredible and unique chance to be led by the best of the best. Why not take it?
Previously, the "most qualified person ever" to run for President was a candidate in 1988. He was the manifest heir to the original Post-War Establishment core, but he had remained somewhat in the shadows of the public eye, even as Vice President. This was partly based on the old school philosophy of being mostly innocuous and bipartisan in one's political temperament, a path that can allow one access to permanent power but has the downside of failing to generate a passionate base of support outside the Establishment itself. Moreover, he had had to fight to claim ownership of the title of being heir against many rivals, right up until the end of the mid 1980s, at which point there was no one left to challenge him.
Hillary Clinton, on the other hand, is a high-level made insider and leader on the international stage, which is where the Establishment inner core "lives," so to speak.
This stage was yet only coming into being in the late 1980s. It is was still fragmented on the world level. The Cold War had to play out to the end. It took Bush's subsequent election to make this new phase happen. The smooth integration of the American bipartisan elite into the global trans-national, trans-partisan system is arguably the crowning achievement of Bush, and of the Bush-Clinton twin dynasty that followed.
Hillary Clinton was there from the beginning. She was practically anointed as heir three decades ago . No other person currently active in American politics in either party can make this strong of a claim, except for men who are ineligible or too old to serve as president at this point. With the last Bush son having crapped out, Hillary is the last titan standing, and the Establishment will be unified in backing her, now that Republican Party has been overrun by Barbarians.
The Establishment have been in charge, and they will stay in charge, in the arena of determination of events that really matters, from which the entire sideshow of U.S. politics can seem but a bizarre periodic distraction. There is simply no real alternative to them, because there is no one who knows this arena of the world who is not already part of the core of the Establishment. And everyone inside the core of the Establishment favors its continuance. You aren't allowed inside until you prove this beyond all doubt.
America, in their eyes, has an obligation to remain stable (in Establishment terms) not just for itself but for the entire world. That was the part of the point of the Establishment program all along---to create a harmonized world aristocracy beyond politics and borders, one led by America and the Anglo-American elite, who essentially served as the permanent quasi-elected American delegation to this world system.
This is what Bush spoke of, in messianic terms in his famous speech in 1991. He saw that his presidency was the moment to achieve this kind of dream for humanity---a world in which nations cooperated with each other to achieve a permanent peace, at least in terms of world trade and finance.
Seemingly it has worked. There are no more major wars happening, or great financial catastrophes. Hiccups and brush fires, to be sure. We will have those for the foreseeable future, but we will also have permanent stability and a slow expansion of justice, at the pace that humanity can actually absorb.
Things are indeed being managed on the global level through cooperation, exactly as the Great Man saw that they would need to be in the postindustrial wired-up world of many cultures and peoples living on top of each other, in real space and cyberspace.
Given this, the Establishment (including Hillary Clinton) doesn't understand why we don't keep letting them do their thing. They know that they are the only ones who know how to navigate the real world. Very few are admitted to the circle. The ones who are have proven they belong there.
Sure, you're frustrated with the pace of change, and the continuing existence of injustice in the world. Who isn't? We all feel the pain of it, in our lives. Life has been that way for humanity for its entire existence. We have made great strides in relieving this pain. We will keep doing so. We hear you. We will listen to your cries of pain, and make adjustment to relieve it.
Do you really think those insurgent clowns you have been voting for have any chance of achieving anything in the realm of the world stage?
Don't you see how unstable things would become, if you let them anywhere near the levers of power?
You need the Establishment to keep going, as it has existed.
Laura Bush agrees.
*Using surrogates instead of directly holding the U.S. Presidency was of course an intended feature, and not a bug, of the Establishment system before Bush. Bush's innovation was to take direct control of the American ship of state, and thus, among other things, to have direct executive power of the various agencies and departments at once.
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