• blue_zephyr@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Hilarious mistake.

    I suppose this would have been effective if even a fraction of the Republican voterbase was reasonable.

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      1 year ago

      Hilarious mistake.

      The mistake wasn’t elevating Trump, but running in the first place.

      There’s a very real chance she’d have lost to Ted Cruz or Jeb Bush in a non-Trump national campaign, simply because she was a weak candidate with an awful reputation in the Midwest. There’s a reason she struggled in the primary, both in 2008 and 2016, against a couple of political outsiders despite having an enormous financial and name-recognition advantage.

      You can’t win the Presidency without Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin. And Hillary was never going to win those states, under any alternative opponent. She lost Pennsylvannia, ffs. No viable Democrat loses Pennsylvania.