2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Harvard & Stanford Reviews Document Media/Vote Bias Against Bernie [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)anti-establishment, populist campaigns we have every election. Asking me to prove ignorance on the part of populist voters is kind of like asking me to prove gravity before discussing staircases.
The electorate in general is astonishingly, tremendously irresponsibly and dysfunctionally ignorant politically. It is the greatest weakness of democracy and always has been, in large part because ignorance causes fear and anxiety, causes discontent, causes vulnerability to manipulation.
Both Trump and Sanders present themselves as strong men who will fix everything, stating their ideas with tremendous conviction in very simple phrases that even the most ignorant person can understand. No accident.
(Btw, might not fit your picture of Hillary supporters, but excepting the very few mentions of his attacks on Democrats, I agree virtually entirely with the entire list of quotes Wickiquotes has compiled for Bernie Sanders. There's just too much I don't like about him.)