Hillary Clinton is not all she’s cracked up to be. The once promising candidate has now found herself in an uphill presidential battle, and she keeps getting pushed back down. That being said, people haven’t been entirely fair to her this election season. While she certainly has her faults, Clinton may be our only hope at surviving the next four years.

People have been quick to blame Clinton for just about anything they can get away with. The number of ridiculous accusations coming from the right wing (namely the alt-right) is staggering yet unsurprising. A few of the more farcical theories go so far as to say she has a body double for events, or that she is fed information through an earpiece during her speeches.

A lot of these claims stem from a mob mentality that her running mate, Donald Trump, is pushing onto his supporters. He’s normalized conspiracy theorist thinking with statements such as: “This whole election is being rigged. The whole thing is one big fix. One big, ugly lie.”

The problem with statements like these is that he’s set up the framework for violence, anger and even potential rioting if Clinton is elected president. Somehow, she manages to take on these and other ridiculous claims with grace and eloquence, further proving her strength as a woman and as a presidential candidate.

At the end of the day, the largest problem she’s dealing with this election is sexism. President Barack Obama’s campaign was riddled with similar undertones of racism. People expect more from her as a candidate than they do from Trump, and when she reaches those expectations all it does for her is level the playing field, instead of putting her ahead (as it should).

That being said, Clinton is a flawed candidate. One point of major concern are her corporate ties and connections to big banks. Much of her funding comes from billion dollar companies with questionable motives. We worry she has the potential to become a corporate puppet.

This was proven to be a possibility through her 30,322 deleted emails published by WikiLeaks in the past few weeks. Many incoming and outgoing messages discuss her funders’ ties to her campaign, and many are troublesome companies like Citigroup Inc. or Goldman Sachs (her first and second highest donors, respectively).

Despite her major flaws, Clinton would still make a better president  than Trump. She has her demons, but she handles herself as a president should. She understands diplomacy and executes it well (as proven during the three presidential debates). She has experience working with other countries as the secretary of state. She is friendly with the leaders of many of our allies, and she i working towards civil relations with those countries that may potentially be dangerous to the U.S. She knows what’s going on in Washington. She’s been a core part of the government for 30 years, and whether or not you believe she’s done a good job, you cannot discredit the work she’s put into bettering our great country.

She is also a godsend to the Democratic Party. While she is more centrist than the other major candidate contender, Bernie Sanders, she has embraced many of his ideas and welcomed them into her campaign. A perfect example of this is her proposal for eliminating in-state tuition for public colleges for families with annual incomes up to $125,000. This would be a huge step in the right direction for our country and would affect a huge chunk of the college student population.

A lot of people say she just wants to continue Obama’s presidential policies and have a relatively uneventful four years. We think otherwise. While she shares many of the same policies with our president, she does want to continue pushing positive change forward. She just wants to do it slowly. While this might be infuriating for us millennials, who want to see immediate change, it might actually be for the best. Immediate and abrupt change can be jarring, especially to something as large as political party. It’s the same reason the Republican Party as we know it is imploding right before our very eyes.

Clinton may not be the president the Democratic Party wants, but she’s the president they need. We can only hope that if elected, she keeps the promises she has made this campaign.