Sanders campaign manager: Don't buy David Brock's blame game for Clinton loss

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Sanders campaign manager: Don't buy David Brock's blame game for Clinton loss
Jeff Weaver
The Hill

Brock’s narrative that Hillary Clinton’s loss is the fault of the millennial voters who supported the primary campaign of Senator Bernie Sanders is laughable. It’s worth noting that Anna Greenberg, an informed political professional who followed Brock as a speaker at the State Innovation Exchange conference, was quick to distance herself from his baseless “analysis.”

November’s result highlights the central challenge that the Democratic Party faces — building a party that represents the interests and aspirations of middle and working class Americans of all races. When elements of the party spend decades supporting job destroying trade deals and cozying up to Wall Street and other corporate interests, it only makes sense that working people and young people’s confidence in the party as a whole has been shaken, if not shattered.

And this is not limited to white voters. Turnout in places like Detroit and Milwaukee reveal that the party’s problems cross racial lines.

Rather than face the very real challenge of remedying this situation, some have taken to blaming pollsters and data analysts for Hillary Clinton’s loss. After all, it’s much easier to bash those who didn’t see the wheels coming off the train rather than asking why the wheels were coming off in the first place.

In the next few months, Bernie Sanders will go back to being just another voice in the Senate, and Hillary Clinton will most likely (at least according to Terry McAuliffe) retire from politics, but this schism will remain.

Sander's message drew more millennial votes than the Clinton and Trump campaigns combined in the primary season, and this generation just recently displaced the baby boomers as the largest population. It's not hard to figure out where we need to go in the future.