"The journalist Rebecca Traister observed once that there was "an Indiana Jones-style, 'It had to be snakes' inevitability" about me facing Trump. "Of course Hillary Clinton is going to have to run against a man who seems both to embody and have attracted the support of everything male, white, and angry about the ascension of women and black people in America," she wrote. I was up for the challenge. And I might add: Of course I had to face not just one America-bashing misogynist but three. Of course I'd have to get by Putin and Assange as well."