2016 Postmortem

People to Hillary's left didn't object to the idea of a woman being president. If they had, they wouldn't have been prepared to support Warren first(remember, there was a serious draft Warren effort before the idea of Bernie's candidacy emerged).

I tried to get those people to vote for Hillary, over and over-but the responses they gave me were, overwhelmingly, about trade policy and the perception(which I DON'T share)that she was too likely to get us into a war with Russia. Those were the things I heard, over and over and over again.

Sexism and racism are massive problems, but reducing the fall result to blaming that that is basically an argument for not changing anything at all. And we can't win if we don't change anything-if we hope to just "win by default" by somehow getting those extra 100,000-150,000 voters in the Upper Midwest.

I recognize that Hillary had an economic justice message, but in the ads I saw and the speeches I saw in the fall, it was barely mentioned. And a lot of the time, racism and sexism weren't mentioned all that much. In the last month, it was almost totally about Trump being a d-bag(which he manifestly is, but which was never going to be enough).