"...while the minority base (of the party) is probably still dominated by the Democratic messaging, a coalition of sub altern interests is forming that could, with an extremely weak Republican nominee, create an aperture for either a 3rd Party victory or, in essence, an election inflection point where an insurgent candidate could actually co-opt (take over) a major party.
"This coalition, a collection of generally under-represented, low social capital individuals, has become increasingly networked and increasingly motivated. This group that our analysts are calling (makes air quotes) bucket of losers could not only be a significant force in the next election, but could, on an outside percentile, even win."
This is clearly a reference to the very forces that came together around the insurgent primary campaign of Sen. Bernie Sanders. "Bucket of losers"? Quite a characterization of Sanders' supporters, right? That's sure not going to help her win over those millions of Sanders primary voters. Not to mention the remarkable denigration of Clinton's supported core supporters, the "minority base" of the party, whom she says are "still dominated by the Democratic messaging." How is this kind of condescension supposed to make those in that "minority base" feel?
Also damaging was a snippet of another purloined speech, where Clinton spoke of her two-faced approach to campaigning, vowing for example to oppose the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal that she had as recently as last fall called "the Gold Standard" of trade deals, saying she opposed a pipeline for Canadian tar sands oil, when as Secretary of State she was pushing hard for its approval, and her claim to want to rein in the big banks when in fact she was telling the bankers paying richly for her closed-door speeches that she thought they should be writing the regulations.
As Clinton said in another one of those paid private speeches to financial institutions, it's important for a politician to have both a "public and a private" position on some issues. She explained:
"If everybody's watching, you know, all of the back room discussions and the deals, you know, then people get a little nervous, to say the least...So, you need both a public and a private position. "
In that same speech, she said:
"You just have to sort of figure out how to -- getting back to that word, 'balance' -- how to balance the public and the private efforts that are necessary to be successful, politically, and that's not just a comment about today."
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