2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Do you think if HRC had just focused more on economic justice and not on social justice [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)We should never REDUCE our commitment to fighting institutional bigotry...a commitment I personally believe all of us share no matter which primary candidate we supported(and that all primary candidates actually shared equally...other than maybe Webb, and I'm not sure he's still in the party). If anything we should STRENGTHEN it.
The idea is to strengthen the social justice commitment, strengthen the emphasis on economic justice alongside it, and focus less on attack politics towards the other side.
To make our fall campaign about getting people to vote FOR us, rather than just AGAINST the other candidate.
Most of the ideas in our platform were and are popular, whether the originated from the Clinton campaign or the Sanders campaign.
A campaign that emphasized those ideas and made a case for why they were actually better(including why they were actually better for voters in the Upper Midwest) could have gained us the votes we needed to carry the Electoral College.
This isn't about attacking our 2016 nominee in any way at all OR about calling for anyone to be "thrown under the bus". Just about finding a better strategy for next time.
What would it take for you to trust the approach I've laid out in this post?