A partial list of things that have been worse for Democrats than HRC's nomination, in which I do my best to offend all:
- Humphrey's nomination
- The McGovern–Fraser Commission
- McGovern's nomination
- Carter's nomination
- Cardigans
- Mondale's nomination
- Bill Clinton's nomination
- Welfare "reform"
- Bill Clinton's p****
- Rise of 24-hour cable news
- 9/11
- Kerry's nomination
- The Great Recession
- The ACA
- Expiration of the payroll tax cut
- Infatuation with Bowles-Simpson (IBS)
- State-level right-to-work legislation
- State-level voter suppression legislation
- Obama's entire second term
McGovern-Fraser is an unacknowledged villain throughout all of this. Both parties have immense problems with their presidential nomination process over the past several decades, and the modern primary cluster has a great deal to do with this.
Democrats in particular have consistently selected nominees who make for either poor general election campaigners or poor presidents. It would be difficult to design a process that produced worse results and created more enmity.
