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Originally posted by Lebanese Dude
The most toxic thing this election isn't Trump and his cabinet from hell. It's cancerous left wing extremists who suddenly feel justified in their beliefs when they're the ****ing reason it all came crashing down.
Blame the ignorant and the bigoted all you want. You just proved that fighting it in practice not as important as your vaunted idealism.
Oh and Bernie lost because he had a ****** campaign and failed to address anything other than economy, something that Hillary actually beat Trump on, which was ultimately irrelevant since fear played a bigger factor
A huge reason why Hillary lost was the wave of antiestablishment that Sanders propagated and that which Trump hijacked. How the **** do you think she lost the rust belt? Jaded independents who took Sanders message and applied it to Trump.
God forbid you take responsibility and not deflect your own failure as liberals to Hillary.
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sure keep blaming Bernie supporters and the tame, relatively non-inflammatory primary for Hillary's loss. it had nothing to do with Hillary being under a criminal investigation for most of the election cycle, or the coziness of the Clinton Foundation with the State Department, or that after 8 years of Obama's centrist, corporatist Presidency voters wanted real change. or the fact that Hillary was unable to excite the Democratic base, specifically black and latino voters. Or the fact that Hillary failed to craft a message that appealed to working class voters, allowing Trump to scoop up these voters with ease. Bernie didn't create the anti-establishment sentiment that Trump exploited - it was already there and there were valid reasons that it existed. if you want to be mad, be mad at the failure of the Democratic party to nominate an electable candidate (Bernie had higher favorability than both Trump and Clinton until the day of the election) and the failure of the Clinton campaign that was so arrogant that Hillary didn't even campaign in Wisconsin during the general election.
as for Progressives feeling "justified in their beliefs" after Hillary's stunning defeat: Clinton was the embodiment of neoliberal, donor-attentive politics and Sanders was the epitome of new-wave Progressivism.
Sanders' ideology created a movement that engaged millions of millennials in the democratic process and took him from a non-entity political outsider to a household name overnight, winning nearly half of the states in the primary even with Hillary's collusion working against him. Hillary's ideology resulted in her losing to the most hated presidential candidate in history. if that's not a mandate for a leftward shift in the Democratic party's leadership and platform, I don't know what is.
