I just LOVE Bernie Sanders for saying this. It is so unsexist and so unmisogynistic!

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409. The End of Identity liberalism NYT

from my viewpoint this was one of the key strategic mistakes of the Clinton campaign:

"One of the many lessons of the recent presidential election campaign and its repugnant outcome is that the age of identity liberalism must be brought to an end. Hillary Clinton was at her best and most uplifting when she spoke about American interests in world affairs and how they relate to our understanding of democracy. But when it came to life at home, she tended on the campaign trail to lose that large vision and slip into the rhetoric of diversity, calling out explicitly to African-American, Latino, L.G.B.T. and women voters at every stop. This was a strategic mistake. If you are going to mention groups in America, you had better mention all of them. If you don’t, those left out will notice and feel excluded. Which, as the data show, was exactly what happened with the white working class and those with strong religious convictions. Fully two-thirds of white voters without college degrees voted for Donald Trump, as did over 80 percent of white evangelicals."

What Sanders was saying was you can't just expect someone to vote for you because you are a woman. That is not enough of a compelling reason. From the election results clearly many white women (54%) felt left out of the campaign that emphasized who they were in terms of gender, racial, religous and sexual identity politics, instead focusing on what she could do for them ie: job/security/etc politics.

More: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/20/opinion/sunday/the-end-of-identity-liberalism.html?mc=aud_dev&mcid=fb-nytimes&mccr=NovHighMC&mcdt=2016-11&subid=NovHighMC&ad-keywords=AudDevGate

The other losing issue was NAFTA. you simply can't be a Clinton and shake the stench of NAFTA off in the rust belt without A LOT of WORK and attention. By all accounts Clinton and Mook neglected this group, as her husband bill and people like Michael Moore knew it would be an issue.

http://michaelmoore.com/trumpwillwin/
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/bill-clintons-lonely-one-man-effort-to-win-white-working-class-voters/article/2607228