So apparently Clinton lost because Putin manipulated Sanders supporters.

[Associate Justice PiT]

You made a thread because you got offended by some random, Huffington Post comments? Okay...

You made a thread because you got offended by some random, Huffington Post comments? Okay...

Yes, I'm a petty person who gets triggered easily. I'm also annoyed at how most democrats blame everybody and everything but Hillary Clinton for the 2016 election result.

That's what this thread is mostly about.

LOL anyone who gets triggered by Huffington Post comments should get off the Internet. This is even more trivial than those "a random local politician somewhere just said something stupid" or "a few students at some university throw a fit about something stupid" threads.

Yet no one want's to address the broader topic of my initial post.

This thread wasn't about me being triggered by some Huff Post comments, it was about how Democrats are still trying to make excuses for why Hillary lost. Bernie bros brainwashed by Putin, Comey, Russia, third parties! Anything and everything but Queen Hillary.

     This is something I have noticed as well. Those are just comments on an article, but they are emblematic of a much broader trend where many Democrats are eager to cast aspersions on people with differing views and double down on the same mistakes that cost them the election.

     There are also people, including Virginia in the post right above me, who make the point that the election just happened a few months ago and more time is needed. It is true that the election is still very recent and not everyone has moved on, but it is also worth noting that every day this sort of nonsense continues it hurts the Democrats' image. The New York Times ran an article a few days after the election analyzing the critical strategic flaws that sunk the Clinton campaign, so to still be passing the blame months later is an embarrassing failure of strategic judgment.

[Associate Justice PiT]

Except literally no one has been arguing that Clinton ran a flawless campaign, and virtually no one thinks she will run again. The problem is that people take any argument that Clinton wasn't treated fairly in the campaign or any discussion of the underhanded tricks that undermined her, as implying that any criticism towards her is invalid, but that's not the case. The people complaining about this stuff generally accepted the criticism about her and her campaign long ago.

     Clinton got an advantage from the press, who consistently treated Trump as a joke. Sure it seems to have backfired, but they weren't trying to treat her unfairly. Some things came up that hurt her, granted, and some were more valid than others. But my point still stands: if Democrats accept the criticism of her campaign, why do they engage in some of the same activities that she is criticized for?