Even the propaganda rag of German neo-liberalism, Der Spiegel, sees Secretary Clinton headed for the cliff:

Der Spiegel

Mistakes and Breakdowns in the Campaign

Hillary Clinton has a monumental task: the apparent Democratic candidate is the hope of every American, who wants to preserve the country from Donald Trump in November.

Obviously, the non-partisan editorial staff and owners of Der Spiegel are most concerned about the well-being of the good citizens of the United States.

The main observations are that Secretary Clinton's response to the email-affair is a "a shrug of the shoulders and a short 'sorry'," which voters find unconvincing.

Many Americans wish that she would tackle the matter more decisively. Obama showed how this is done. When he was under heavy criticism for his association with a controversial pastor in the 2008 campaign, he made a big speech, and the debate became more fact-oriented.

Obama was the great savior of the neo-liberal world after the total shambles of the 43rd US administration.

Clinton lets herself be led around by Trump.

Dear Der Spiegel: Trump doesn't really care about Clinton. He knows that if she is the candidate, come November, he has better than even chances of winning. Trump cares about himself. Secretary Clinton is has been sucked by the Bernoulli Effect into Trump's wake, along with the detritus constituting the US and German media.

This is the great part:

Clinton makes herself unnecessarily vulnerable to attack

On top of this, Clinton makes a real mistake. One example is how she deals with Bernie Sanders: her rival has no longer any chance against her. But instead of granting him with aplomb the right to contest the final primaries, on CNN she declares herself the inevitable candidate, thereby further alienating Sanders' supporters from her.

Dear Der Spiegel: the supporters of Bernie Sanders, even blind drunk, are not going to vote for her. Your editorial board is ignorant of or willfully does not report concerning the fact that Senator Sanders and Mr. Trump have fracked the great shale of anger above which the rich draw their drinking water.

You are clueless, further supported by the advice you offer to Hillary. You are aware that USians are asking the question, "What will Bill do in the White House?" Good enough. Your advice:

Instead of just answering the question with a simple "I am campaigning - not Bill" , she announces that she wants to make her husband into a sort of Jobs-Guru in an [sic!] administration. Suddenly all of America is asking itself, why she doesn't concern herself with the important labor market.

Dear Der Spiegel: "What would former President Clinton do in the White House": had you formulated your sentence in your heads in this way, you might have realized how dumb your own advice is. Everyone wants to know what a former President will do if his spouse becomes President, even if out of tabloid interest. Waiving this question off with such a stupid reply would be what I would expect Secretary Clinton to do.

Furthermore, your speaking point is a ridiculous lie. President Clinton is campaigning, violating US election laws in they way he does so; see the Massachusetts Primary, etc. It is the Clinton Foundation which is running for the Presidency.

Do try to keep up, as they say.

Lest the neo-liberals crumple over their half-double-decaf-half-caffs in despair, the last paragraph assures us that all can go well, especially for those downtrodden in the United States whose welfare keeps the German elite awake at night in their 3.5 million-Euro lofts in Hamburg:

Of course, it is clear that there are still five months until the election, and not everything which goes wrong will weigh her down. Her program for America is not so bad. It is just that a fact-based election contest with Trump is no longer possible; his populism fills all the headlines. One thing is correct, above all else: the Clintons should not be underestimated. Both Hillary and Bill have numerous campaigns behind them [wait - I thought you just told Hillary to say that she is campaigning, not Bill?], and both have shown many times that they know how things work. They have a team which is much larger than Trump's and the best-filled campaign coffer. The conditions are not bad, actually.

But it would be good for the country and the world, if her campaign got back on course. Otherwise, everyone will wake up in November to a terrible surprise.

Dear Der Spiegel: The size of their campaign team and their bank account means little. Donald Trump, if he wants to be President, can do something the Clintons would not dream of doing: self-finance. But he doesn't have to do so: he has enough supporters to help him. The size of his team doesn't matter. What matters is who gets to the polls and votes.

The candidate with the biggest team is Bernie Sanders: the king of political crowdsource.

Secretary Clinton's campaign experience is dismal. She has only been elected to one office - Senator from Wall Street. Even taking President Clinton's experience into account, elections have changed radically since the 1990s in the United States. The party system hasn't modernized much in Germany, far and away the most conservative society among the major economies of Western Europe, except that the choices have gotten worse and worse.

The fact is, German elites are paranoid that Trump will dump NATO and start talking with the boogeyman of the German political racket, President Putin.

The comments below the line to this article were highly critical of both Secretary Clinton and Der Spiegel Online (SPON).

Please, do not give Der Spiegel any more clicks. And do not learn German through the material printed in Der Spiegel. Their writing style is miserabel.

Peace and love be with you, reader.