2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Yes, Bernie Sanders would have beaten Trump, but the real question is [View all]Jakes Progress
(11,177 posts)He couldn't even win the Democratic primaries. If not for caucus states, which are not anything like elections, he wouldn't have made it two months.
Hillary was never going to get the deplorable vote. As you said, they hated her already. But she would have done better with the middle group if Democrats and people who pretended to be Democrats hadn't spent the whole length of the primary trashing Hillary. I can't tell you how many times I heard white people who had supported and still supported Obama make statements like "she has so much baggage". All that baggage was lies. These people didn't get that idea from faux news or trump. They got it from people like Bernie.
So, yes Bernie scummed his way into the disgruntled middle ground. But he would never have gotten the turn out from Hispanics and the Black community that Hillary did.
No. Hillary was our chance. But gullible voters bought the primary campaign lies and innuendos that let trump into the white house. They threw their votes away on third party or stayed home. Even more voted for Hillary after they had spent several months convincing the middle ground not to.