2016 Postmortem

The point isn't that this wasn't a normal year. Not being a normal year isn't what would keep Sanders from winning. People didn't flock to trump because they wanted to vote for Bernie. Actually, they didn't flock at all. He still got the vote of only about a quarter of the electorate.

If, as you contend, Sanders was just a flawed sexist and bum like trump, and they didn't mind trump being crude, why would they vote for Sanders?

You are sort of all over the place with this. Arguing that Sanders is like trump and like bush is not making your case. Sanders was promising stuff he couldn't deliver and never put forth a solid plan for anything. I started out trying to support Bernie, but grew tired of his endless, empty rhetoric. And your contention that "everybody" knew about his rape essay and living on unemployment (not the same as living off daddy like bush did) is not accurate. If you didn't really go looking, that story was under wraps. The media kept it out of sight because they needed the drama of a contested Democratic primary for their ratings.

You are quite accurate about the comey comments. Do you really think they couldn't have done the same hatchet job on Sanders? Hillary won the damn election. She didn't lose great swaths of the voters. And you know that if the election were reheld just two days after the voting, she would have won in a landslide. My beef is with the "democrats" who ran with the right wing memes about Hillary all the way up to the election. They suppressed the vote. My particular beef with Bernie is his taking his ball and going home after the drug out the primary sniping at Hillary. Then he would sulkily endorse her. After he spent four months too long questioning her judgement.

And I'll agree that this wasn't a normal year. But not because there is a giant wave of proletariat ready to rise up and cast off their capitalist oppressors. Hell, 25% voted for a pretend billionaire. They want to be just like him. The Democratic message (while too conservative for my tastes) resonates with people overwhelmingly. What made this an abnormal year is the media collusion, crooked fbi assholes, idiot third party fools, and absolute lack of any morals for ethics by the opposition. Trying to be more like republicans is not going to win us any election that will produce progress.