2016 Postmortem

"fault" of the loss (beyond Fox and tRump's mesmerizing lies) sits on the shoulders of the ones who ran her campaign, and on Clinton, herself, for acting in a way that actively disengaged voters, including those who were so turned off by the way her campaign was run that they chose not to vote for her.

Sanders exhorted us in no uncertain terms to vote for her, and he was on the road for her giving scores of speeches to this effect. Check his schedule. The points he raised in the primaries were truthful and valid points for discussion in selecting our candidate. Her primary win in no way reflected who was the better candidate for the general, and was, as the facts have since revealed, not so ethically achieved by her team/the DNC. This back room self-dealing reaffirmed the very concerns many had, so for those who were most concerned about her ethics and judgment, I'm sorry, but that put the nails in the coffin, sending them away from her camp to never come back.. It seems many of her supporters won't look this in the eye and prefer to cast blame on Sanders instead.

So many of us reject the suggestion that Sanders shouldn't have fought as hard as he did; if it had been a level playing field in the primary there's a good chance we wouldn't be looking aghast at the specter of tRump now. We will never know, but we do know what went down, on our side.