2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: There's no good reason to anathematize Bernie and his supporters. [View all]Barack_America
(28,876 posts)...do they have to believe in?
Think about that. Donald Trump did. And Hillary did too, but hoped she could avoid her 30 years involvement in that conversation and just win by appealing to the goodness in people.
Why do they hate her? Some of it is pure misogyny, sure, but it's more that she became to embody the evisceration of male economic superiority in general. She was not well-received in areas that still feel a man is the head of the household and are ashamed for a woman to be the bread-winner. Yes, these areas still exist. And I doubt they felt the "Stronger Together" included them, more like "in spite of".
Some of it's fair (such as sending gun control flyers in the mail in Michigan = dumb). Much of it was not. But she never tried to aggressively meet it head on with at least economic policy.