2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Hillary needs to drop out. [View all]Betty Karlson
(7,231 posts)Unfortunately, Clinton has a history of always being the last to read the writing on the wall:
2008: was the last one to concede Obma had won the nomination ("but I still won the popular vote!"
2013: pretty much the last Democrat to embrace equal rights for all (her "evolution" on gay marriage had already gotten to the point where she was a living fossil)
2015: TPP founders on objections of New Zealand. Polls show massive popular opposition to it, and Fast Track is suddenly irrelevant. And suddenly Clinton decides it is no longer a golden standard. (But still triangulates her words in a way that leave the opportunity of gold-foiling the standard again later in life)
2016: Millennials overwhelmingly reject the status quo. Clinton pertains they haven't done their homework, thereby admitting her mind is still stuck in 1999, when Millennials had no right to vote and could still be talked down to.