Especially young black voters.
"Their parents -- particularly their mothers -- were virtually solid in their support for Clinton, and that wasn't the result of her racial 'pandering' (as Trump later suggested) but rather Hillary's quiet, steady work, over decades, on issues of 'kitchen-table' importance to black families and the relationship she built with black leaders. That history was either unknown to or ignored by many Sanders supporters. Clinton, 'has to be willing to get out of what's comfortable and get on the streets,' said one, obviously ignorant of the fact that at the age of twenty-four, Hillary had been a civil rights activist who went undercover to investigate discrimination in public schools. Hillary was also the first candidate to pay attention to the Flint, Michigan water crisis, joining forces with Flint's mayor long before Bernie showed up in town. But like Clinton's work on LGBTQ issues, decades old rather than campaign inspired, none of this made it into flashy stories headlining her lifelong commitment to racial, gender, and sexual justice.
"She also apologized profusely for using the 'super-predator' label, even though in her speech it was not aimed at African American youth but the dealers who exploited them. ... But for too many millennials, both black and white, '1994 Crime Bill' and 'super-predator' said all one needed to know about Clinton. Some spoke as though she was personally responsible for the spike in mass incarceration that was a consequence of her husband's bill."
Susan Bordo, "The Destruction of Hillary Clinton"
Such as shame. All anyone had to do was Google to find out Clinton was talking about drug dealers, as Bernie was when he called them sociopaths in his speech in support of the 1994 Crime Bill. And Google about the crime bill, that it had bad things in it because it was bipartisan, but also good things like an assault weapons ban. As Representative James Clyburn explains:
"We operated on the theory that we were not going to lose in '94. We put stuff in there that we thought we would build on. But we lost in 1994, and all the punitive stuff, the Republicans kept all that and got rid of some of the good stuff. ... We went left in this country in the 1994 bill when we put in the assault weapons ban. But when it came time for renewal, we didn't have the votes."
Same thing that happened with the ACA. Something to build on but Republicans took over the House and that was that. Once again, Democrats blamed for what Republicans do.
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