Democrats say they now know exactly why Clinton lost

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31. Obama voters became Trump voters because of 8 years of cultivated hatred

that blinded voters to issues and self-interest beyond jobs and race

The right's culture war became a Crusade against perceived demons,
a mental shadow-boxing of paranoia and blistering righteousness.

It was very hard to run a campaign of returning to recent harmony of
the Bill Clinton years while running against an angry outsider

During the campaign I kept asking myself, why is Trump in all these rural
MI PA WI outback towns? What's he up to? Something that we're not
understanding.

HRC was too suburban upscale to connect with small town folks in the
brassy paternal way Trump did. We needed an attack dog like Joe Biden
in the race to back her up.

In many ways HRC played a woman's strategy, reasoned, stiff upper lip,
conciliatory at times, but also was left to attack Trump. He throaty, strident
voice turned off many voters that I talked to. "I couldn't stand her" they said
to me. I think men still dominate politics, HRC was in a bind on both sides.