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In reply to the discussion: It would be nice if the centrists in this party did some introspection, too. [View all]DanTex
(20,709 posts)If you use google for a few seconds, you can find plenty of ads or speeches where she talks about her progressive proposals. For example: https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/statuses/760847322922090496
Also, she did get some traditional GOP voters to go for her: college educated whites. So you're wrong about that also.
Problem is, she lost some working class whites, and those people lived in certain parts of the country that the electoral college artificially gives more sway. But she didn't lose those people because her message wasn't progressive enough. She lost them because they were drawn to Trump's racism and nativism.
There's this fantasy on the far left that racist white people who found an outlet for their racism in Trump would have voted for Clinton if only she had embraced $15 instead of $12 for minimum wage. It's absurd.