And yet, if it hadn't been for Comey, Hillary would have won, and she won the popular vote Yugely- AND she did it as a woman (first woman presidential candidate ever- for a major party)- despite what you are saying. This election was very close- something Trump wants people to ignore, but you shouldn't. Absent some pretty severe shenanigans, Hillary would be going to the white house. There were a lot of people who liked Hillary better than Trump (and 3 million more of them in the popular vote- which, I get it, no one cares about- but those weren't all "hacks"- unless you think the majority of voters in this country are hacks. Maybe you do. Who knows?)
Trump entered a "dialog" and pandered to racists. The dog whistles were off the charts in this election. They were more like dog sirens. Hillary could have, and should have, done more to pander to the whites who felt their jobs were gone and never coming back (though, maybe she was a little too honest to do that- since a lot of those jobs are never, ever coming back). But she thought she'd win- and she would have, if Comey hadn't done what he did at the last minute. It's easy to rewrite the playbook when you're looking backwards.
I would have voted for Bernie, though I didn't think he had a shot. And John posted some pretty scary numbers about what could have happened with Bernie- McGovern 2.0.
Here's the article on Bernie:
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