2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Looking back I, personally, see no benefit to Democrats from Sanders or his supporters [View all]Uponthegears
(1,499 posts)BUT
I have to totally agree with you when it comes to the supremely unhelpful "I told you so" and/or "You lost" posts.
I campaigned for Bernie in the South, not just supported him. After the primary, I did GOTV for Hillary because people who look like me get hurt when Democrats lose elections. I mention this only because Bernie would not have beaten Trump. Given the fact that Trump's "economic message" was not the selling point for his cabal, those voters would have had no reason to vote for Bernie if he were Trump's opponent.
The simple fact of the matter is that Hillary was the ONLY candidate who could have beaten Trump because she was the one between the two who could have most easily brought all facets of the party together. I think her campaign lost sight of that and prioritized bringing in (what I consider to be) unreachable white suburban "Reagan Democrats" and that may have cost her the election BUT that has nothing to do with whether she was also a great choice. She was.
Neither you, not any other Hillary supporter, "needs to shut up."
Please do not, ever.
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