I have been news-free since election night. Just can’t do it. I’ve been surprised at the sudden suggestion I’ve seen here that HRC just didn’t speak to or try to win white voters. At the complaints that she didn’t campaign well enough. Shocked that people here actually voted third party, knowing the danger of a Trump presidency. The importance of the Supreme Court appointees.
I finally read this piece today and, lo and behold, I find out the source of these complaints and recriminations.
I thought I’d seen her here in NC several times in the last weeks of the campaign. Even on the night before the election.
On Election Day, news outlets blasted footage of Donald Trump, morose, defeated, slumping across the finish line in his hometown of New York, knowingly awaiting his fate. The night before, Clinton seemed to shake the earth with massive, unified rallies in Philadelphia and North Carolina, first with the Obamas and her husband, former president Bill Clinton, and the second with Lady Gaga, Bruce Springsteen, and mass crowds of college students chanting “I believe that she will win!” well into the early hours of the morning.
This, being in a total news blackout, I did not knowe.
Just hours after the stunning upset that proclaimed Donald Trump president-elect, the vultures began to circle around the scene of Secretary Clinton’s political death, the body, so to speak, not even cold yet. Senator Bernie Sanders, her democratic rival in the primary, who spent the tail-end of that campaign impugning Clinton’s integrity and questioning her qualifications to lead, hit the talk show circuit immediately. Despite having begrudgingly supported Clinton following his primary defeat, both at the Democratic National Convention and on the campaign trail through November, he seemed to almost gloat with a “told-ya-so” self-righteousness, openly implying that he should have been the nominee and offering prescriptions to the Democratic party.
“I’m deeply humiliated that the Democratic party cannot talk to [white working class people],” Sanders professed dramatically on CBS This Morning less than a week following the election. “I think that there needs to be a profound change in the way the Democratic Party does business. It is not good enough to have a liberal elite.” Sanders, a lifelong independent who changed his registration status to Democrat in order to run for the party’s nomination, reverted his status back to independent only days after the Democratic National Convention in July.
And, I swear these are things I’ve been reading all this week being said here.
His online supporters reveled. “I think the DNC made a fatal mistake ganging up on him and being biased towards Hillary,” said one Facebook user. “Even now, after the Dems lost the election, he is still more popular in the news than Hillary is. As much as I’m nervous about Trump being president…I’m glad Hillary didn’t win only because her supporters made me want her to lose.” The morbid pile-on continued for weeks. “She didn’t campaign hard enough in swing states.” “The DNC rigged the primary against Bernie Sanders! Karma’s a bitch!” “She lost the white working class.””She just wasn’t likable enough.” “She had no plan for the economy.” “Voters just didn’t want her.”
Lots of facts and numbers in this piece and a lot of debunking of lies.
It has explained to me the rox/sucks going on here at DK and filled me in on what I’d missed about the election since my self-imposed exile. By exile I mean lying in the fetal position on the couch for hours, in fear for our country, our people, our planet, my children, one who is half Mexican and half Lebanese Muslim (she has it coming and going during this administration). Will she have to register or will she be deported to a place she’s never been? Both?
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