On that call with donors on Thursday, campaign chairman John Podesta said that Comey is the one "who we think may have cost us the election."
Granted that the Comey letter was damaging but it wasn't the reason that voters drop-kicked Mrs. Clinton. The blame belongs with Team Hillary itself and the repulsive nature of the most cynical, angry and divisive campaign ever. Hillary managed to dodge any discussion of actual issues and focused her energy on race baiting, conspiracy mongering, neo-McCarthyist demagoguery that came around to bite her in the ass.
GROSS INCOMPETENCE + HUBRIS = DISASTER
It's not that Clinton went negative but rather never even bothered to articulate a positive vision for America as a whole. So effective were her lies and spewing of hatred that her brain dead minions are currently rioting in the streets and demanding that the election results be overturned or at the very least, the Electoral College realize that there was a mistake and give the presidency back to Queen Hillary.
Clinton got creamed because she chose to tell the white working class to go to hell and paid dearly for that miscalculation in the Rust Belt which became the killing fields for her White House hopes. Instead of spending the last weekend appealing to voters in economically decimated areas of Ohio, Hillary chose to pander to blacks by appearing with foul-mouthed rappers, cop-hating divas and multimillionaire celebrity basketball players. That worked out really well for her didn't it?
Her organization was led by an all-star team of f*ck-ups who set new standards for incompetence. Campaign manager John Podesta bumbled into a phishing trap and then watched in horror as over 50,000 of his emails were published by Wikileaks. The collusion between the campaign and her stooge infested DNC was laid bare when internal emails detailing political skullduggery and primary rigging against Sanders were also released. Rather than mitigate the damage by profusely apologizing to the public, Democrats quickly blamed it all on the Russians.
Another epic miscalculation was Hillary's embracing of the neocons and especially ideologues Robert Kagan and William Kristol who gained notoriety for their think tank the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) and it's role in providing the intellectual underpinnings of Bush and Cheney's catastrophic decision to invade Iraq and destabilize the Middle East. While the Beltway bozos, the corrupt media and the defense industry which underwrites the careers of thousands within Imperial Washington were drooling over the prospect of unleashing the warmongering Hillary on the world, the idea that Americans are tired of foreign wars and want to fix America instead was never considered.
Then there was boy wonder Robbie Mook who pushed the red-baiting in the stretch run, going on the Sunday morning bloviation circuit to allege that Trump was a Kremlin puppet. This was a meme that Clinton herself pushed and actually accused her opponent of during the third debate. Mook's foray into the past was so sleazy that one writer called him out as a "millennial Roy Cohn" but the smears of Trump and his supporters as Putin's fifth column never resonated with voters. Nor did her big "alt-right" speech seeking to marginalize conservatives and Trump supporters as neo-Nazis and her doubling down on failure by calling out millions of Americans as a "basket of deplorables" served as a rallying cry for the anti-Clinton opposition.
The list of blunders is endless but it bears noting that the FBI wouldn't be involved at all if not for Clinton's own choice to use a private email server. So FBI Director Comey may have done some damage to the Clinton criminal empire but the majority was wholly self-inflated by a campaign that more than made up for a lack of substance with an abundance of arrogance.
WELCOME TO TRUMPLAND
The words President Trump are like acid in the mouths of liberals and progressives but they must accept the new reality. The iconoclastic billionaire is neither the new Hitler as the media and liberals have invested much in portraying him as nor is he a raving racist fiend. That was more of a narrative that Team Hillary chose to promote than the actual truth. Never before in the history of American politics was a legitimate presidential candidate of one of the two major parties so savagely vilified by so many and it blew up in spectacular manner.
I always found the narrative that Trump is an anti-Muslim hatemonger to be a very hypocritical one. The same media that constantly attacked the new president-elect as an Islamophobic lunatic has spent fifteen years providing cover for an ongoing series of Middle Eastern wars that have resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent Muslims (including women and children) as well as the creation of a refugee crisis that has destroyed the lives of millions. As the saying goes "those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones" and let's face it, Trump has no blood on his hands (at least not yet) while the corrupt media bathes in it.
Trump's alleged racism towards Latinos was also ginned up, largely due to the Democrats needing to appeal to that particular demographic for future elections. Trump's comments were always cherry-picked and then spun for maximum impact in terms of the potential to generate public outrage. He may have blasted illegal immigrants but these are indeed people who are in the country in violation of the law and the biggest proponents of immigration reform are corporate types who benefit greatly by keeping American wages depressed. There was the border wall that the media harped about but in another glaring show of hypocrisy and selective outrage, the fact that Israel has a border wall was never once offered as context.
Despite the media and Democrats' insistence to the contrary, Trump has not said anything negative about either LGBT people nor of African Americans but keeping these demographics in fear of facing persecution serves the Democrats well and keeps them aligned with the party. Trump reached out to blacks in the latter months of his campaign, many of whom were deeply suspicious of the intentions of the Democrats who have always taken their votes for granted. Despite months of demagoguery and dabbling in the always incendiary politics of race, the black vote failed to turn out for Hillary as it did for Obama.
There are many reasons to suspect that Trump may be a lot more moderate than a President Clinton would have been, especially in foreign policy now that the neocons and World War III have been placed on hold.
STEPPING BACK FROM THE ABYSS
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