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2016 Postmortem

jeff47

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9. His appeal is rage.

Reply to merrily (Reply #7)

Fri Feb 26, 2016, 05:11 PM

Feb 2016

There's a whole lot of very unhappy people in the country. It's obvious, even to Republicans, that our government is broken.

Trump expresses that rage, and then directs it towards various "others". It's not your fault that you are barely scraping by. It's those people.

Clinton lacks it because she fundamentally is an insider. She can not rage against the very system she thrives in.

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U.S. News: Clinton's Speech Morass is Her Own Fault [View all] BernieforPres2016 Feb 2016 OP

there is no morass. is she is a bad President, she won't win a 2nd term MariaThinks Feb 2016 #1

its's the definition of a morass EdwardBernays Feb 2016 #3

Do we say that about Trump too? gcomeau Feb 2016 #4

Trump can get away with it for some reason. The rest of them need to be trustworthy. merrily Feb 2016 #7

His appeal is rage. jeff47 Feb 2016 #9

The very system she and her husband helped create, so he could be President and maybe her, too. merrily Feb 2016 #10

Yep. There is no way for her to tap into this anger. And that is why she can not win the GE. (nt) jeff47 Feb 2016 #11

I don't think anger is necessarily the motivator, so there is certainly an element. merrily Feb 2016 #18

She'll never make 1st Term: Hillary's a General Election disaster in the making. 99th_Monkey Feb 2016 #5

LOL! merrily Feb 2016 #6

The Clintons always seem to have something to hide. TM99 Feb 2016 #2

Just because it takes Hillary two years to comply with a subpoena and an FOIA request, merrily Feb 2016 #8

I deserve a good flogging don't I TM99 Feb 2016 #19

That was the subpoena reference in my post. But, I'll give you a good flogging for your merrily Feb 2016 #20

Wasn't my fault. I didn't force her to give conflict of interest speeches for money she didn't need merrily Feb 2016 #12

Just another suitcase she needs to check along with the closeupready Feb 2016 #13

Jeez, she's had enough time to rewrite them by now n/t Matariki Feb 2016 #14

More evidence of Hill's bad judgment. senz Feb 2016 #15

kicked and rec'd Vote2016 Feb 2016 #16

K&R kgnu_fan Feb 2016 #17

re: "reinforces the notion that she has something hide" thesquanderer Feb 2016 #21