It's partly that and partly a character flaw of mine, I hate hypocrisy with the force of a thousand suns. When I hear Trump supporters talk about Trump and admit he's a "ruthless businessman" I don't really have a huge problem with them, they're partly admitting they're supporting an asshole and I dislike that because they're morons but at least they're partly honest with themselves. On the other hand we have liberals that have convinced themselves they're the epitome of morality and justice so when a piece of shit like Hillary is forced on them they have to justify their support so they try to defend her, they're trying to ignore her crimes they're trying to still act holier than thou while supporting such a scumbag while at the same time the scumbag known as Hillary Clinton does the same.
That sets me off, I can take idiots supporting assholes but where I draw the line is when these idiots and the assholes they support are pretending to be nice, benevolent and so on. Plus, you know, she's an actual war criminal.
It’s only hypocrisy because you have set up this ridiculous bastardization of history. One that puts Hillary - a hawk for sure - but with relatively minor actual influence from a historical standpoint of the positions she has held in government with regards to the issues you speak of like ISIS and Middle Eastern genocide, but yet has somehow in your mind been morphed into this central figure for every foreign policy evil the western world has committed lol.
She’s a hawk that exists somewhere on the spectrum slightly further out from the idealist/realist Obama doctrines but not near full blown neoconservative guns ablazing endless regime change advocate. She’s a policy and governing pragmatist with liberal core values and far too friendly affection for Wall Street and K Street, but not as friendly as her Republican counter parts, nor half as corrupt. She certainly has a reputation for backroom horse trading but I am not sure that is always a bad thing, as you don’t really ever get major policy passed without it. And if the left was as hypocritical as you state the lack of enthusiasm for her candidacy, and the quickness with which she has been pilloried, certainly doesn’t support your argument.
And lol at Republicans being honest with themselves. You need to get out of the Resetera navel-gazing. If Hillary voters are beyond the pale for overlooking her foreign policy record, how in the fuck can you sit there with a straight face and call Trumpkins, that have made rationalizing their messiah's criminal, corrupt, and borderline treasonous behavior a national pastime, forgivable? This presidency is making the Harding administration look like minor league players and it is entirely enabled by a unified complicity made up of their voter base and that bases propaganda arms. Some of you resetera obsessors need some serious perspective adjustments.
