Dkos: No, Senator Sanders; YOU are out of touch (opinion piece)

[ucrdem]

48. In the interest of constructive criticism my perception is that his reliance on RW talking points

to criticize Hillary* -- which has pretty much been his MO since I became aware of him in 1993 -- helped him in the short term by attracting low-information Hillary haters, but ultimately hurt him simply because they aren't true, and when he got to the big blue states like California which are a shade more informed than Iowa for example, he lost his mojo because on that score he really is out of touch, and seemed so. Unfortunately the collateral damage were the flyover voters given license to hate Hillary. Whether they actually determined the election I doubt, but they were real enough to distract from the funny business.

*An example would be the Clinton Cash narrative of the Clinton Foundation as an international payola-laundering scheme, also the speaking fees point which evidently emerged from a RW focus group concern.