"Shattered"

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10. the 'factor related to the emails' proved to be an equally fraudulent act by the FBI

...positing about reopening an investigation Comey had just declared a complete bust; the 'new' evidence turning out to be nothing but a duplication of material he already had.

Even more, recent reports suggest the effort to draw FBI attention to Hillary's aide's laptop was orchestrated by a Russian plant.

The entire email scandal was a republican invention, aided by a compliant media, and even furthered by her Democratic opposition and supporters. Any 'weakness' it generated in her candidacy was the product of outright lies and distortions, aided by a Russian disinformation campaign using several hundred full-time social media sockpuppets.

Interesting to me how on spot Hillary was about that Russian disinformation campaign, and, apparently, the Trump campaign's compliance and exploitation of that interference in our election.

Sad how many people are looking to push off politically from that corrupted election, this op suggesting Hillary and the Democrat's record votes - some 3 million more - represents some kind of 'divide' in the party because of a loss in the electoral college.

What people are really talking about when they point to the EC is the ability of rural districts in a handful of states to turn out votes which were overwhelmingly republican, overtaking large leads in urban centers to squeak out a tight margin of victory.

That's not a Democratic divide, it's the product of an institutional prejudice republicans in those districts have for the people Hillary and our party represent. What detractors (in both the left and right) are arguing for is to appease those rural voters by dumbing down on issues the vast majority of Democrats represented in that election with their votes.

Marginalizing issues as diverse as reproductive concerns, to social justice reform, these authors want us to believe there's more wrong with our party than with those who are working overtime to disrupt our efforts. That's the 'weakness' in our party: So many too self-absorbed with the idea there's something inherently bad about Democrats that they can't muster themselves to unite with us against the real opposition.



...and Halperin is a fucking tool.