2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Forget Sanders and Clinton for a moment. This is a symbolic schism that has been long brewing [View all]Armstead
(47,803 posts)You can read the "news" and get very different opinions and analysis to support either position. Eitehr Clinton is craashing and burning, or she is amazingly popular or people think of her as "meh."
Not everyone thinks about the Third Way -- but they are fucking pissed off that the company the work for is screwing them while the top execs and owners get disgustingly wealthy. They see outsourcing, communities whose economic base has been hollowed out by outsourcing. They are pissed.
On the GOP side oit takes for form (weirdly) of the support of Trump. His only message is "The people who ate tunning this country are stupid."
On the Dem side, it is expressed in the weak base that Clinton actually has, the growing popularity of Sanders and a general disgust with the whole system. Obama generated such enthusiasm by harnessing "hope and change." That "change" part of his message is what got him over the top....But as we have seen since then, not enough of it.