2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Three major tactical mistakes by the HRC campaign [View all]Nay
(12,051 posts)much had changed for large swathes of people. We can say what we want about Obama keeping the country afloat, but that's about all he did (or maybe all he COULD do, considering Congress). Rightly or wrongly, enough voters in crucial states decided to break the gridlock by -- electing a Republican president. I think they are going to be mightily sorry, but maybe they can go blame it on that one junior Democrat over there in the corner of the House. Or the 'liberal media,' which will continue to fellate Donald Trump in front of their eyes.
I also think the "deplorable" thing was a huge, huge mistake, as was Clinton being reactive to everything Trump said or did. Framing, stupid! Never let the other guy do the framing! But she did.
Her winning the popular vote is testament to the number of people in this country who could see that Trump was a horror show and were willing to do anything to keep him out of office.
We've all discussed what could have been done better, but the worst blow was that snake-in-the-grass Comey, who (I believe) threw the election with that lying shit about emails. A pox on him forever. And why does he still have his job?? Mr. Obama, if you don't punish the shit out of people like Comey, you give other snakes a free pass to fuck you over, too.
Note to future Democratic presidents: DON'T APPOINT REPUBLICANS TO HIGH OFFICE. THERE ARE PLENTY OF GOOD DEMOCRATS WHO CAN DO THE JOB WITHOUT BEING SNAKES IN THE GRASS.