The Russians meddled in our system. We can't regain power by making THAT the argument

[Ken Burch]

32. It's not downplaying Putin to reject the idea that HRC was certain to win if he hadn't been there.

Look, I WANTED her to win in November. But what good does it do for the future to insist that the result was solely "Putin, Comey, vote suppression"

Those all played some role, but we can't put together a winning campaign for the future if we refuse to acknowledge that the party (not the candidate-she did the best she could) could have done some things better and should do things at least somewhat differently I the future?

Those who've questioned the absolute decisiveness of the Russian factor do so, in general, because it's worrisome that there seems to be this insistence that we can ONLY confront that factor by denying any shortcomings at all in our efforts; and, seemingly, by rejecting any calls to change anything internally or by labelling any critique and any suggestions for the future as disloyalty to our part and a personal attack on our most recent nominee and the earliest supporters of that last nominee.

Would you be willing to agree that it's possible to acknowledge Russia having some role WITHOUT using that to silence any and all discussion of where we as a party should go from here? That it doesn't have to be "either/or"?