Bill and Hillary Clinton preach to a pure blue choir in Seattle

When the cheering stopped and the crowd sat down, actor Bradley Whitford opened “An Evening With the Clintons” Friday with a little bit of life imitating art.

“I hope this isn’t too in the weeds,” Whitford said, “but I am going to quote the character I played in ‘The West Wing’ and ask: What in God’s name is happening right now?”

And so began a 90-minute conversation at Seattle’s WaMu Theater in which the former president and the would-be president (and former secretary of state) vented, gossiped and inspired a true-blue, Democratic crowd. The audience included young children and senior citizens who nodded along; screamed “We love you!”; and walked out feeling just a little better about things.

“I really believe that we are in a crisis, a constitutional crisis,” Hillary Clinton said. “We are in a crisis of confidence and a crisis over the rule of law and the institutions that have weathered a lot of problems over so many years. And it is something that, regardless of where you stand in the political spectrum, should give real heartburn to everybody. Because this is a test for our country.”

The Clintons were clearly speaking to the blue end of that spectrum.

U.S. Attorney General William Barr “would rather be the president’s defense lawyer than the chief law enforcement officer of our country,” Hillary Clinton said.

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