2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Shame on all Dems who wrongly say "Hillary didn't talk about jobs or opportunity etc etc when they [View all]Ford_Prefect
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Disaffected working class voters did not believe Hillary was going to help them and at least 29% of the Hispanic vote went Trump. The DNC badly miscalculated and Hillary was unconvincing. Those are quite serious flaws in a Democratic strategy and candidate. That they remained tone deaf to those problems throughout the campaigns was not a mere shortcoming, it was seriously flawed policy.
Blaming the Democratic Left or Bernie is denying the issues existed. The working class and former middle class voters are the ones who were not persuaded that status quo government was working for them. To a large degree they are correct even if many of them chose the last person on the planet that would ever help them to fix the problem. The press did a first class job obscuring Trump's background and amplifying his message rather than showing the yawning gap between his rhetoric and the reality of his insider status.