Clinton: It's My Fault Trump is President

[LiberalLovinLug]

24. Its refreshing to FINALLY hear her admit this

First off, I shouldn't have to prefice this but of course I must in here...
that OF COURSE there were multiple other factors that led to her loss. The Russians and their Facebook and other social media blitz, voter suppression, monopolized RW fake news radio, Fox fucking news, and most likely even voter machine hacking.

That said, she must, and should have earlier, admitted she failed at finding a way to combat the populism Trump garnered. To cut through his lies. To make it clear to working Americans that she had a vision for them as well. She needed a bolder platform to compete with Trump's (for whom it was so easy to be bold because he had no qualms about lying and exaggerating) , or even to compete with Sanders. In the end she adopted some of Sanders platform but too little too late. She also simply was not as charismatic. That is not her fault, that is just her personality, but on camera she didn't look comfortable at times, and every sentence, every word seemed planned and rehearsed. Which was even more obvious when compared to her competitor. She was more of a policy hack, she is incredibly smart, and I have no doubt she and the Dems would have been able to recraft the ACA into a better model, and many other great things, but she is no salesperson, like Trump is. One example is she did not understand that saying things like "its never going to happen" about single payer does not garner votes with anyone, from any side, and alienates many Democrats. Even if, deep down, she thought this was the case.

Anyways, I personally have even more respect for Hillary now. And I appreciate her honesty.