2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: There's no good reason to anathematize Bernie and his supporters. [View all]synergie
(1,901 posts)not having a clue what she stood for, or her history or policy stances. This was in MI, where such people accounted for over a 100k votes, and the margin was 9,000.
I met no "moderate" democrat would said such a thing. In fact, Democrats and liberals who had any level of education were rather enthusiastic about Hillary, even the ones who voted for Bernie.
There were many, many, many Bernie supporters who refused to even register to vote or who *proudly* proclaimed they were far too pure to vote in this election. Purity, ignorance, gullibility and foreign intrusions and a broken and failed media lost this election, where the candidate with a historic number of votes is still referred to as the "unpopular" one, by those who earned millions fewer votes than she did.