If Republicans say mean things about Hillary Clinton, will she have the psychological resources to survive?

Those who find it useful and/or desirable to believe that Bernie Sanders holds an electability advantage in the general relative to Hillary Clinton have a wide array of strategies available to them. Some of those strategies have the advantage of being plausible, or being grounded in something in the general vicinity of empirical evidence. Other strategies are coated in a silky, luxurious sauce of rank sexism. I expect few readers will be surprised to learn which category Doug Henwood chooses.