BID0 wrote:Trump ran left of her with things like no more wars and targeting Wall Street “drain the swamp”
Clinton wasn’t really providing anything more than what people had spent the previous 8 years living through. You knew what you were going to get if Hilary Clinton was President.
Trump and Bernie were filling stadiums on their campaigns with a message of change. The Clinton campaign completely ignored this and all of those votes. It doesn’t take a genius to watch a speech from either Trump or Bernie over that period and stop and think “hang-a-bout why were these two getting so much attention? - maybe we should meet in the middle and offer those people something for their votes”
I find it ridiculous that people say Bernie couldn’t have beat Clinton/Trump but in the next sentence he was so good he was the sole reason Clinton lost.
What did Clinton do after she lost? She toured the world selling her book, blaming anyone else that she could in the process
"Drain the swamp" was (still is) a libertarian cry against the federal government wasn't it? Trump ran a right-wing, racist, nativist campaign and anyone from the left who supported him for his isolationist, "anti-war" views enabled all his other right-wing policies he promised to enact.
Clinton ran a terrible, arrogant campaign looking to gain states like Georgia and Arizona, which was never going to happen, and ignored the safe Democrat states because she was up against a conventionally terrible opponent. She wasn't, however, helped by Comey's extraordinary actions in the FBI's investigation against her or a toothless media that consistently gave Trump more free and unchallenged airtime because of his atypical candidacy.
She strawberry floated it with the 'deplorables' comment (even though she was right) and a complacent, entitled attitude. But she still won the popular vote comfortably and would be in the White House if it wasn't for 78,000 Green votes.
Would Sanders have won against Trump if the Democratic primaries weren't weighted in Clinton's favour? Maybe, but it I don't think it would have been likely. He would have turned off a lot of independents and neoliberal Democrats as a socialist candidate in 2016 (without the backdrop of the necessity of an anti-fascist, anti-Trump 'resistance') and was always weak with minority voters in the primaries. He might have won Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania but might have lost Virginia, and Trump would have still won.