2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Call it, Skinner. nt [View all]Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)Apparently, Skinner should "call it" because then we'll all rally around Clinton and be able to focus on the general election.
I'm not seeing this at all.
As to the first point, party unity in support of Clinton will be hindered, not helped, by pre-Convention edicts that restrict Sanders supporters from expressing their opinions. (Yes, I know the First Amendment doesn't apply to a private website, so please don't lecture me. My point is not the Constitution. My point is that, if you want people who support Sanders to rally around Clinton, you have a better chance if you wait until the Convention. This is a small lesson in how you get things done, which your candidate is supposedly so big on.)
As to the second point, absolutely nothing that is written on DU is preventing Hillary Clinton or any of her supporters from doing anything whatsoever with regard to the general election. You want to start focusing on Trump? Go right ahead. If, as you assert, it's all over and Clinton's nomination is absolutely positively inevitable and nothing could possibly change that outcome, then you have no need to spend any more time trying to tell us how much better than Bernie she is. Your words of wisdom are just pearls before swine anyway, right? Just ignore the nomination battle and start posting negative things about Trump, Cruz, Kasich, Ryan, Reince Priebus, any MSM person who says anything negative about Clinton, or whatever else you think will help win in November.
If you lack the willpower to let our ravings go by unanswered, trash GD-P and the Bernie Sanders Group.
Here's the bottom line: Would someone explain to me, step-by-step, the chain of causation by which a DU decision to "call it" now would increase the chance of a Democratic victory in November?