2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]frazzled
(18,402 posts)When I listened to her general election speeches, from the Convention onward, she always had an overall economic message that applied to everyone (except "those at the very top" . I was very taken with her broad, yet detailed, messaging. Perhaps you weren't listening. 2.5 million more Americans seem to have thought her message was pretty darned good.
I think you're looking for some kind of dumbass, vacuous slogan like "Make America Great Again."
"Stronger Together" was a uniting issue, and the foundational message of liberal/progressive thinking: the country does well when we work together for the common good.
Let me ask, apart from criticizing Clinton, what did you, personally, do to spread the message to vote for her? Did you volunteer to make phone calls, did you post on social media encouraging people to vote for her, did you knock on doors, did you talk to friends and family? Anyone criticizing the campaign should be looking as well to themselves. You were either part of the problem or part of the solution.
In my opinion, it was a vast number of people who sat back waiting for her to fail who bear a large part of the blame. Everyone who chose to leave this site for many months (and I'm not saying you're one of them--I have no idea) and who are now back blaming the Democratic Party or the candidate are a good part of the reason we failed to win the electoral college.