2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: I just LOVE Bernie Sanders for saying this. It is so unsexist and so unmisogynistic! [View all]ehrnst
(32,640 posts)Shored up by 25 years of GOP smears, and plenty of anti-Hillary ads by Karl Rove's superpac to help out Bernie where he wasn't doing well, and not a little bit of misogyny on the left (one reason that the women's movement broke off) that was in FULL display when Elizabeth Warren went from darling to "corporate shill" 10 seconds after she endorsed Hillary.
No such anger at Kieth Ellison for the same.
Even with all that, Bernie could not get the votes from people of color, women, and LGBTQs. I'm sure Jeff Weaver had a bit to do with that. Even benefiting from a pro-Bernie super pac.
Hillary had the average flaws of a politician, with a fantastic record of public service and accomplishments. Bernie had many flaws, but didn't have the record of that one might expect of a career politician, and couldn't get the endorsement of progressives who had worked with him.
I, along with more voters than any candidate other than Obama were willing to put her in office. She appealed to many groups other than white men, and the women who draw their power from the men they align with which was apparently her biggest sin.
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