2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Why Hillary Lost: The Great American Lie [View all]erpowers
(9,350 posts)I am so glad Huffington Post has put out this article. More people need to say this. This myth needs to be exposed. This myth allows Donald Trump to pretend to be a populist. There are too many Democrats pushing the false talking point that Hillary Clinton lost the election because she did not and could not talk to white working class voters and that Democrats need to take up Trump's populist agenda. The polls show she won white working class voters.
Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party had to deal with a version of this myth throughout the campaign. Even during the campaign the media was claiming that Donald Trump had tapped into the frustration of the white working class. However, Bill Maher pointed out that the average Trump supporter was not a part of the working class, white or otherwise.