2016 Postmortem

DemocraticWing

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6. The Democrats even accused Hoover of being a socialist during the 1932 campaign.

Tue Jun 21, 2016, 03:15 PM

Jun 2016

It's hard to really know what Presidents will do considering the evolving political climate. Obama ran for President as anti-gay marriage, then we put all kinds of pressure on him and he's been the best LGBT rights President in history. He's done a couple things I disliked (kicking Jennicet Gutierrez out of the WH pissed me off) but mostly he's responded to pressure.

I think HRC supporters should have been a little more gentle in the primary about reinforcing that she's transparently going to respond to political pressure. Everybody knows that, and we don't have to like it to make it work for the Left.

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