2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: How are the continuing attempts to delegitmize Bernie's campaign NOT "refighting the primaries"? [View all]Hekate
(94,641 posts)She lost the Electoral College, antiquated relic of slave-holding states, because she lost rural states and former slave-states. Although they are low in population, their cumulative EC numbers are significantly greater than the urban states with high populations.
Trump was helped by FBI Director Comey, who bitterly hates Hillary Clinton and who released information that was legal garbage, as we know today.
Trump was helped by Vladimir Putin, who is thrilled to have a useful idiot in the White House. Putin's electronic fingerprints are all over the cyber attack. It was essentially an act of war. And by the way, Putin also has a vendetta against Hillary -- is it a bad thing or a good thing, in your estimation, to be hated by a ruthless cold blooded dictator?
Trump was helped by white supremacists like Bannon, who could probably teach a thing or two to Goebbels.
Trump was helped by all the states that, under GOP leadership, gerrymandered the hell out of all their congressional districts. He was helped by all the states that instituted voter suppression laws that effectively brought Jim Crow back from the grave.
The list goes on. Did Hillary really need to call the pervert a pervert herself? Or was Michelle Obama's spontaneous speech about that issue sufficient? Would HRC calling DT a pervert have turned the tide against Trump, or were the women who voted for him believing it was just locker room talk and boys will be boys, already so far gone that nothing could reach them?
Here's your "deal," but I really am tired of arguing the issue with Bernie supporters. It's too much like religion.