2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: I fear Democrats are laying the groundwork for future losses by refusing to learn from defeat [View all]ismnotwasm
(42,461 posts)That Believe things the Spitted Owl ruling was the end of the logging industry, The "un-city" would deny a woman's right to choose. The "un-city" tend toward whiteness in the worst possible sense. It's not that the "un-city doesn't matter or exist, it's that they are often unreachable single issue voters that believe RW bullshit.
And there are plenty of urbam deplorables. Trump appeals to the worst in human nature, to the ill-informed, the ignorant. To cast a vote for that motherfucker, took embracing or compromising with biogtry, misogyny and stupidity. Far too many of us were fooled into thinking we were better that that--despite the signs from the primary on that for far too many of us -- we aren't
And you are completely wring about how Hillary ran her campaign. There was a reason she wasn't running around filling stadiums--that wasn't part of the strategy. She met with many smaller venues all over the country.
Hillary didn't lose so much as hate--or the hateful-- won.