How Bernie's campaign contributed to Trump's win.

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156. People felt that way about Hillary before they even knew who Bernie was..

Is anyone really naive (I'm being generous, it's more than likely willful ignorance) enough to believe that before Bernie came along people thought that Hillary was a woman of the people who was somehow not part of establishment politics?

Hillary could barely win her own demographic against a man who personified the struggles that same demographic faced through most of their life.

Hillary lost almost 30% of the latino vote.

Does anyone really think that either of those groups loved Hillary before Bernie came along and said mean things about her?

Same thing with Millenials. The idea that they would all just fall so in love with Hillary had they not fallen under the beguiling spell of an old white haired Socialist from Vermont is laughable.

And let's not even get into the number of HIllary supporters who said many times over "Good riddance! We don't need your votes anyway!!".

The fact that she lost even as many primary votes as she did, to a mostly unknown entity like Bernie should have been warning sign number one that she was going to be a bad candidate.

And no, I wasn't a Bernie voter and I do think he probably would have lost the election as well. But this isn't about Bernie. It's about the woman who won the primary and lost the election. What we needed was a bigger back bench and more options. But we didn't have that because as soon as Hillary lost the 2008 primary, the DNC had no focus other than getting Hillary Clinton the Democratic nomination.