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Voters =/= DNC though
We got Trump because Clinton was largely uninspiring. She made herself this bland neolib that nobody actually wanted to vote for and then mocked Trump as a non threat.
Everything you said is true but I personally think the real reason it happened was because Clinton was a bad pitch and she would've lost to most Republicans at the time.
They should've gone with Bernie just that simple
But the DNC didn't care about the primary votes and shoved her in because "we need a female president" or some shit.
I genuinely believe your average person both wants a female president and badly does not want it to be Hillary.
I'm astonished you people have maintained this level of delusion after Bernie has lost twice.
He had his chance, twice, and the voters did not choose him, twice.
Holy shit are you fucking clueless. The are like 50 articles like this one. The primaries were rigged, stupid.
https://observer.com/2017/08/court-admits-dnc-and-debbie-wasserman-schulz-rigged-primaries-against-sanders/
And in 2020 they bent over backwards to accommodate him, even delaying moving the first primary away from Iowa
She literally ran the same year as Jeb "Please Clap" Bush, and this was after a stint at Secretary of State where she had to do an "apology tour" for spying on other nations.
People were fed up with political dynasties that year, and the fact that the Democrats couldn't read the room is why they lost.
The DNC literally hid behind being a private club to justify putting their finger on the scale for Clinton.
What's that old saying? "If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts; if you have the law on your side, pound the law; if you have neither the facts nor the law, pound the table."
https://observer.com/2017/05/dnc-lawsuit-presidential-primaries-bernie-sanders-supporters/
Here is the Democrats pounding the law that the DNC is a private club, so nobody can say their own rules are fair but them. They never argued the facts about whether or not it was rigged, because they didn't have facts to support that.
You know you can be a part of the DNC right? Like if it's so important, have you engaged with it at all?
My state level Democratic party is where I spend most of my energy because they're not nearly as trash as the national party.
I'm glad you're involved, thank you!!
Why not both? She sucked AND the DNC didn't do enough.
Bernie wasn't a car-carrying insider like HRC. He wouldn't play their game and they "owed" her for paying off the DNC debt.
I was saying before the 2016 primaries that the only candidate who could lose to Trump was Hillary, and the only candidate who could lose to Hillary was Trump. If either party had run a halfway decent candidate we wouldn’t be in this stupid timeline.