So what will make this year different from all other years? Talk to Clinton advisers and they’ll tell you: Nothing. It won’t be. The Republicans who are currently praising Obama are wolves in sheepskin, and Obama himself, with his appeal to transcending partisanship, is the little lamb that never smelled the blood of the slaughterhouse and won’t know what’s happening until the knife is at his throat.

If I were advising the Obama campaign, I’d find a quiet way to get as many copies of “Hillary: The Movie” into voters’ hands as possible—only because it will remind them of the relentless ugliness in store for all of us if she becomes the nominee or the President.