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In reply to the discussion: A pessimistic prediction from Joy-Ann Reid. Read it anyway: she could well be right about everything [View all]DirkGently
(12,151 posts)C'mon, now.
You'll pardon me if I question the logic of that.
Is your position that there shouldn't have been a primary, or that people who preferred another candidate had a duty to pick your candidate immediately, in case she won the primary, to provide a greater aura of support ... or something?
I didn't beat Hillary. I voted for her. My spouse, who dislikes Hillary much more intensely, also voted for her. If you want us to go back in time and apologize for not liking her for all the reasons she did not in fact win the election, that's unreasonable and frankly a bit weird.
I'm a little annoyed myself with her supporters for failing to own the fact they backed a candidate with too much baggage to win, with polls showing her far less likely than Sanders to beat Trump head-to-head, and dismissing even the possibility we might consider ideas other than hers, for the perfectly valid reasons people gave.
You should at least admit we nominated the wrong person, but short of that, you have absolutely no basis to blame other Democrats for her loss.
As for who we'll nominate to fight Trump next time, again, we followed the Bush years with Obama, who was at least claimed to be "the most liberal Senator in America," and who is in fact a bit to the left of Clinton. There's no reason for neoliberals to presume we will return with their failed approach "next time."