Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.
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« on: November 13, 2016, 05:38:22 AM » |
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« edited: November 13, 2016, 05:45:18 AM by 1945>1488 »
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A. Things that were the fault of Clinton, her campaign, and the Democratic establishment
1. Economically populist positions adopted during the primaries sounded fake coming from a retro-nineties-DLC candidate (not that Clinton being honest about being a neoliberal would have helped matters)
2. Choice of an excessively 'safe', not-particularly-leftist running mate (I like Kaine quite a bit but he was not the right choice here)
3. Clinton and her surrogates regularly implied and on a couple of occasions outright stated that anybody who didn't fully understand or agree with her social policy platform was a horrible person whose vote she didn't need or want anyway, rather than making a good-faith effort to convince on things on trans issues, BLM, or repealing the Hyde Amendment
4. General complacency and glibness (see: not giving Feingold any help towards the end of the race because she assumed he didn't need it even though he said he did)
B. Things that were the fault of the media and other ostensibly-neutral élite
5. Media's obsessive, masturbatory fixation on developing and maintaining a 'horserace' narrative at all costs
6. There were points at which it looked like elements of the news media actually wanted Trump to win so they'd get four more years of automatic ratings and performative outrage/virtue signaling
7. James Comey/MUH EMAILS in general
C. Things that were the fault of American culture or the American people as a whole
8. Incredibly low standards for male behavior applied to Trump, including by many women; to the extent that sexism can be blamed directly for the loss, it's here rather than in responses to Clinton herself
9. Receptivity to conspiratorial and racist accounts of America's problems, including among 'well-educated' young white men, who are in many cases more racist than the WWC Trump Country 'hicks' (in that the latter assume but can depending on the situation be talked out of racist attitudes while the former have actually considered and chosen racism as such)
10. Obsession with flashiness, spectacle, speed, novelty, celebrity, outrage, 'winning', point-scoring, score-settling, et cetera.
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