2016 Postmortem

It's great that you thought that. I thought that too. But the point is that people who didn't think that, had that opinion before most of them even knew who Bernie Sanders was.

She didn't need to convince us. She needed to convince other people. Bernie's high level of support was a symptom of a much larger issue that needed to be addressed and never was. But it wasn't the problem itself.

It's this myopic notion that Hillary was this loved, adored, woman of the people before some cranky old man came along and convinced people otherwise that needs to stop being whined about. Certain people only seem to want to look at everything else that went wrong except what the candidate and the party as a whole were responsible for. And the problem is we still have to have that party and we still need it to be functional moving forward. Whining about someone who said mean things about Hillary during the primary several months before the election gets nobody anywhere.