Maybe Clinton Wasn't to Blame for Trump's Victory

[JHan]

48. Yes, politicians sometimes inflict wounds on themselves.

Because you can't be arguing Hillary Clinton is the only politician to make a mistake correct?

Politicians make mistakes all the time, Campaigns make mistakes, but there are sometimes double standards in the way some mistakes are amplified and others ignored, and which Politicians get the treatment and which don't. Charles Pierce, Tom Junot, Michael Tomasky, and even Vox has covered this: https://www.vox.com/2015/7/28/9059953/clinton-rules-new-york-times ... There's even a name for it "The Clinton Rules" and in 2016 those rules resulted in journalistic failure: it is a stunning indictment of certain popular, respected, publications that an email server story drowned out a story about possible collusion between a foreign adversary and advisors in the Trump campaign.

In any case, the salient point of the piece in the OP is how Trump exploited resentment and destroyed conventional politics, and infected the 'body politic'.

If you're not interested in delving deep into the points of the article, your purpose is what?