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2016 Postmortem

lapucelle

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3. "Clintonias (persuasive) defense of its own righteousness..."

Reply to portlander23 (Original post)

Sat Dec 3, 2016, 08:10 PM

Dec 2016

What's Clintonia?

"A good chunk of the Democratic Party intelligentsia applauded Clinton for taking the moral high ground, declaring the entire white working class to be a deplorable racist swamp."

When did that happen?

The Huffpo author sounds like any other third party voter who is trying to deflect the blame he's facing for Trump's election. Ain't gonna work.

The Democrats did campaign on a platform of economic justice. That's probably why you haven't heard any cogent arguments explaining why they didn't.

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Why Hillary Clinton Lost [View all] portlander23 Dec 2016 OP

Disenfrancizing Mellenials was not good FreakinDJ Dec 2016 #1

Juxtapose the denials and rationales. HassleCat Dec 2016 #2

"Clintonias (persuasive) defense of its own righteousness..." lapucelle Dec 2016 #3

The "salient" point is pure stupidity. DanTex Dec 2016 #4

1000 sheshe2 Dec 2016 #5

There's no simple explanation for why Hillary Clinton lost William Seger Dec 2016 #7

... sheshe2 Dec 2016 #6

Her campaign was ensconced in a Manhattan bubble, and for whatever reason Warren DeMontague Dec 2016 #8