2016 Postmortem

package...and part of what you are selling as a candidate and message. But is she unintentionally implying with her logic that Clinton lost because of not enough identity politics? Besides, standing up for people's civil rights and being in favor of a big diverse and inspiring tent is not running on identity politics in the same way that some have used the term. When Sanders says we can't just run on them, he's referring specifically to a candidate emphasizing that quality while subsuming any platform on actual policies that will help people of these identities and the American people at large. We can disagree whether or not that happened in Clinton's campaign, but at the very least we need to know what we're talking about when we say "identity politics" and it sounds like we have different definitions.

But yes, saying "When you fight for things that people can believe in you win" is a good argument. It misses the realities of corporate media influence and all the candidates who lose when fighting for those things, so I assume she's oddly enough, talking about the Democratic Party at large, which has often been tepid on social and economic issues(as in coming late to the movements as the wind blows), in a kind of nudging way.

Or maybe somebody else can unravel this for me.