General Discussion

It was fully expected that the right wing noise machine was going to hammer on her and Bill. That's been the m.o. for decades, and the negative backlash was fully predicted. Could it have been overcome? Sure, absolutely, but we should know by now that it's all about making the results close enough to steal.

Honestly, I really believe Comey put his finger on the scales when he announced the second investigation so close to the election. That left no time to recover anyone in the mushy middle and handed the narrative to Trump, who played the populist fiddle all the way to victory in just 3 swing states. Putin did his part by very accurately seeing the vast swaths of discontent among certain groups and pounced, re-enforcing a lot of simmering bias.

Manipulating the electoral vote was always the goal, and it worked then (and with Bush) and almost worked again with Biden. It's clearly the goal in 2024, which 100% explains the tsunami of voter suppression and gerrymandering. Knock out the minority vote and take advantage of a terrible system structured to favor a regressive minority party. Now, should that come to pass in 2024 and the GOP controls it all, expect blue states to get hammered with Supreme Court rulings and new federal laws intended to turn them red (or at least nullify any hope of ever winning an election again).