"the US is pretty much fucked for the next 4 years"
Far more than that. The outcome of the Clinton email fiasco will tell you, beyond and shadow of doubt, if the US is a 3rd world country.
That fiasco was a shame on her, but far from placing the US as a 3rd world country. Our president, Dilma Roussef, is far dumber than H. Clinton, and a day doesn't go by when Dilma says something extremely stupid. She once mentioned in the UN that scientists needed to invent a mean to stock wind. She's possibly one of the dumbest persons alive, and she makes Clinton look like a Nobel Prize Nominee (and makes Trump look like a 2x Nobel winner).
One thing that is admirable in the US is that the people's opinion is somehow regarded, is taken into consideration. I am certain that Clinton will have someone coach her on using a proper e-mail client, and not to say other bullshit like that.
One strong image that Clinton will explore to the fullest is her seating in the same situation room as Pres. Obama during the raid to Osama Bin Laden's bunker, when he was - supposedly - killed.
Other that than, and I may sound sexist but I am far from it, many countries run be female heads-of-states, have been a total catastrophe:
- Dilma Roussef destroyed 16 years of economical stability and growth in Brazil
- Cristina Kirchner did the same to Argentina
- The whole refugee fiasco in Germany, allowed to happen by Angela Merkel
- Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, from the Phillipines, who ended up being arrested for fraud
- Michelle Bachelet, from Chile, had a great first term, but her 2nd one, ongoing, is a total disaster, with some of her family members deeply involved in corruption tied the government
- etc