The Dangerous Myth That Hillary Clinton Ignored the Working Class

[JCanete]

32. There are ways in which I think, not Clinton specifically, but the party at large

has continued to fail on economic messaging. One failing is that our policies are never strong enough when they pass to have irrefutably positive results(not that we've had many opportunities). Another is that our leadership is too unwilling to put our congressmen and senators on the spot to back the strong stuff that certainly wouldn't be passable with a republican congress let alone our own hold-outs, but would at least signal a clarity of purpose on populist promises that people could understand. I'd be happy if we stood in resistance to policies too, rather than caving.

This unwillingness is no small consequence of our party's need to either be financed by big industries and their moguls, or at least not run too far afoul of them.

That said, any media perpetuated meme along these lines, carries with it the implicit lie that Trump did these things right. Clinton absolutely had better economic policies than Trump. Her policies were sane ways to nicely get corporations to get on board with throwing the public a bone. That's certainly better than Trump's policies, which suggest bending us over and giving us the bone.

I do agree that when it came down to it, those last 20 years of smearing the Clintons with total bullshit paid off . She couldn't wash all that off her. The reaction is nearly in people's DNA at this point. A lot of people who didn't like Trump were saying for a while that both candidates were absolutely horrible. They are all reconciling their purchase now by saying that we need to give the crazy fucker a chance and that he really is going to make things better, just you wait...but if it hadn't been Clinton, I don't think as many of them would have gone his way.

But then, yeah, there was also an embarrassing media effort, which had a hell of a lot more to do with the effect of Comey's hit-job than Comey's effort itself, not to mention Trump's own rise and brand resilience. AND it should never be forgotten how much voter purges and voter suppression in all of its forms, (and shoddy journalism can largely be blamed for this too), have contributed to the ruin of Democratic chances in America.