Sanders tanked Clinton.

[Warpy]

3. Would you prefer party coronations?

Forget it. Our candidates slug it out in the primaries, always have since fat cats in back rooms were deprived of the privilege of picking the most business friendly candidate to run.

Personally, I don't think Sanders damaged her, not after she adopted a lot of his more popular platform positions and he started to campaign for her.

I think a hostile and corrupted corporate press damaged her by muting her speeches while endlessly bleating about fake scandals ginned up by Russian trolls, all the while giving her asshole opponent a free ride. I think Comey hammered one of the final nails into the coffin by his surprise announcement just days before the election, followed by an "oops, nothing there," too little and too late. I think it's highly likely that swing states with those easily hacked DRE machines had their results altered by Russian hackers.

Blaming Sanders is not only in error, it's just too easy a copout and I thought better of her.

I suppose it's easier to focus on a political opponent, even one who came over to your side, than it is to admit how foully tainted the 2016 election was.