HRC/Democrats Lost Due to WRONG Message

[mike_c]

38. I believe the Democratic party failed so badly because it nominated the wrong CANDIDATE....

I held my tongue after the primaries because thems were the rules, and I didn't go sulk on other forums, but I always believed that a Clinton nomination would guarantee a Trump victory. Americans desperately wanted a populist candidate, and the two strongest populists were Trump and Senator Sanders. Senator Clinton was the ultimate establishment insider, about as far from what the electorate wanted as could be found. Frankly, I'm surprised she did as well as she did, barely winning the popular vote and perhaps setting the stage for a horribly devisive electoral college upset. She was the worst possible democratic candidate in this electoral context. If dems cannot bring themselves to understand this, they are doomed to irrelevance, or at best the fickle election year pendulum swing of voter discontent.

Clinton loyalists can moan and groan about her winning the popular vote, or being sabotaged by the FBI director all they want, or whatever, but they cannot paper over her failure to decisively defeat one of the least qualified and worst opposition candidates in U.S. history. Clinton was the wrong democratic candidate, plainly and simply.

The DNC utterly owns this disaster, or at least they share ownership with Senator Clinton herself. The DNC subverted the primaries to insure a Clinton nomination, because it was somehow "her turn." Senator Bernie Sanders was filling sports arenas while Clinton was hosting $5000 per plate dinners for a few score "party elites" and the other candidates were speechifying at bus stops. Sanders would have crushed Trump. Folks who cannot allow themselves to understand that will ultimately destroy the Democratic party, IMO. Obama's primary victory over Clinton in 2008 reflected the same electoral discontent with establishment candidates. The DNC's insistence upon anointing HRC in 2016 was utterly tone deaf.

I hope Debbie Wasserman Schultz gets a good job in the Trump administration. She earned it.