Clinton's behavior bespeaks a stunning failure to understand the basic realities she and the State Department she leads are supposed to shape.

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However, per the U.S. census, inflation-adjusted median household income has fallen for more than a decade, a stunning national failure.

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But the bare demographic and economic facts for both Chicago and Illinois reveal a stunning legacy of failure.

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Coming so soon after Seattle, any meeting would need to be a stunning success to avoid being judged a catastrophic failure, and would also run the risk of a repeat of Seattle-style chaos.

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