Jonathan Chait for New York Magazine:

[Hillary] Clinton does not have the image of a politician who has made ordinary lapses. Her image is that of a crook — and not just in the fevered minds of Republicans chanting, “Lock her up!” …. Clinton’s own behavior has certainly contributed to this reputation. As Karen Tumulty and others reporting on Clinton have found, she is caught in a pathological cycle of paranoia and indignation. Clinton distrusts the media, and her fear of mistreatment can drive her to act like a person with something to hide, making reporters suspicious, which inflates her own paranoia. But the scale of her actual mistakes and misdeeds comes nowhere close to the scale of her reputation and cannot account for it alone.