The big problem is not Trump. It is "Trumpism"

[CJD]

(05-08-2019, 12:42 AM)oncemoreuntothejimbreech Wrote: That wasn't the DNC's fault. Hillary lost the electoral college because of what she chose to focus on and where and when she chose to focus her efforts.  Hillary made strategic errors which lost her the election.

I don't believe that. 

In the 50s or 60s, I could buy the whole "you need to campaign somewhere to get those people's votes." Because, back then, you only really heard small tidbits of policy speak from candidates on the nightly news. So knowing what a candidate thought required actually going to listen to them speak.

Nowadays, the internet exists. And you can check what Hillary wanted to do on her website. Or on the news websites. Or by going to Facebook. Or Twitter. Or Instagram. Or almost anywhere else.

Going to rallies to listen to a candidate is not something I've ever heard any of my friends even mention as a possibility, let alone something they look forward to.

What Hillary did wrong was being so incredibly unrelatable that she lost millennial enthusiasm despite facing down the worst serious candidate for American President that the nation had ever seen. It was the preferential treatment (and arguably, cheating) the DNC gave to her that alienated a base that, had Bernie just lost fairly, would not have defied the DNC to the degree that they did. It was the fact that her entire strategy was based around "yea, I know I'm pretty insufferable, but look at my opponent!"

I don't know for sure, but I have my doubts that, after all that, just going to Michigan and Wisconsin and talking would have helped her at all.