But who gives a crap about Lena Dunham?
But who gives a crap about Lena Dunham?
The only candidate with "Cult like adoration" in this election is our new orange leader. He can do no wrong and tell no lies in the minds of many of his supporters. Just look at the recent polling numbers from PPP amongst trump supporters
That's some crazy shit right there.
Do I think Hillary was a perfect candidate? Absolutely not. Should she have not taken the rust belt for granted? Absolutely.
She also dominated every debate, and won the popular by a 3 million vote margin, and was winning in every poll going into election day.
She also had to deal with unwarranted, baseless attacks coming from all angles, including the director of the FBI 10 days before the election. Make no mistake, the Comey letter brought the election back within range for Trump to pull off the upset. All the polling numbers back this up.
And let's not understate that her opponent did things that would disqualify almost every other candidate in the history of the republic... and still won.
And his margin of victory in the rust belt combined couldn't fill Michigan's football stadium. He threaded the needle through a combination of increased rural voting, decreased urban voting, gerrymandering and voter supression.
If you were to pick a generic candidate, tell the party base that the candidate was going to win all three debates by healthy margins and lead in every single poll going into election day... every single member of that party would sign up for that on day 1.
Best candidate? Probably not. Mistakes made? Always. Worst campaign ever? Not even close.
The Dems do have issues; mainly in their continued fractured base that is still fighting the primary.
But also in that they allowed the Republicans to set the rules of the game over the past 6 years. They allowed districts to be redrawn, and yes, as a party, didn't do enough for rural Americans who have been struggling mightily due to deindustrialization. They need to find a better way to speak to this group of people.
I'm not naive enough to think there is only one reason Trump won, but in my view Hillary lost that campaign the minute she decided the best counter to "Make America Great Again" was "America is already great!" The economy as a whole has rebounded, but many, many voters in swing states haven't seen the benefits of that. Income inequality is part of that, the loss of manufacturing jobs to automation is another. And she's extolling the virtues of how great America is. Is that what those voters wanted to hear? It was all they got to hear, in many cases she didn't even bother to campaign in those areas.
From a significant portion of the pundit class, for one. Daou, Marcotte, Eichenwald, Doyle, etc. Primarily in response to legitimate criticisms of Clinton from the left. That's where the whole "Bernie bro" thing started, if you remember.
Bush was tame compared to Trump. This guy is well on his way to a world war and I'm not saying that out of hyperbole. Unless some of the GOP can reign him in (which really doesn't look likely) , I think some sort of war is inevitable. The South China Sea is a major flash point for example. Mexico is a US ally and he's treating them like shit. It's not even being done through diplomatic or private channels, he's trying to publicly humiliate another country on Twitter for God's sake!
Trump said at least 15 things that would be more like likely to implode a campaign than that.
That right there is one of the huge problems. The instinct is always to run to the middle, to "pick off the uncomfortable GOP voter" instead of rallying the base.
You're talking only about social issues, which don't win elections.
It would be a comedy shambles if it wasn't real. I can't quite believe what is happening. The country is literally run by lunatics.
