2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Wow - the concern trolls were right. [View all]vi5
(13,305 posts)I can assure that I'm not a "troll" but I was highly concerned and every concern I had came true. And people didn't even seem to care that I was not exactly a Bernie booster. I'm glad he ran and he served a very important function. I think our loss would have been even larger if Hillary just walked up and took the nomination unchallenged at any step in the process. I didn't think Bernie necessarily had a better chance in the general election, but at this point......I'm not so sure about that.
What kills me more than anything is that unlike after Dean's loss in 2004 when he actually worked to build up the party as a whole for the benefit of the entire country, the DNC under Kaine and DWS served only to focus on getting Hillary the nomination and then winning the general election (which they couldn't even manage to do with that one single job). I don't even think there was any shenanigans or malfeasance or illegality in getting her the primary win, except in the fact that they clearly didn't work at anything else BUT doing that. For all the talk about how Hillary was going to help and energize down ticket races......well, how'd that work out for us as well?
I had hoped once DU came back up I'd see a little more introspection but clearly that's not the case since every other thread on the front page seems to be screaming about election fraud, the exact thing we mocked trump endlessly for suggesting.