2016 Postmortem

...before Bernie as candidate was even a blip on anyone's radar. And I hate the whole implication that a primary challenge is somehow anti-Democratic (big and small D) and that any candidate at any point was obligated to be nice to anyone else who was running. It's a primary and as the variation on the old trope goes "If she's not able to stand up and adequately fight off a cranky, gray haired socialist from Vermont how is she going to stand up to Trump and the GOP?" And as if poor Hillary just sat there crying like a wilted flower from the hurt feelings from Bernie's words. Bullshit. She gave back just as well as she received.

Time after time even before the primary, and even going back to 2008 people pointed out that Hillary would energize Republican hate but without sufficient motivation from many core Democratic voters. Time after time those people were told they were wrong. So now that they've been proven fucking right almost to a scarily prescient degree, it's somehow everyone else's fault.

I'm more than happy to let these delusional people get it all out of their system now and then we can just move on. But it doesn't seem like any of them are letting it go any time soon.