There are over 62 million more people living in the U.S. In terms of percentages, she underperformed among working-class voters, and it was exacerbated by doing even worse among them regionally in “blue wall” rust-belt-states, which translated to lost electoral votes. Pretending that’s not true isn’t particularly…

I saw that as well. It seems like relying on identity politics without engaging in the retail politics to back it up may not be a very good strategy. You can’t just assume that any demographic is an automatic vote, you have to actively engage with them and convince them to support you, be it latinos, blacks, or white…

The blame falls squarely on those, you included, who pushed a deeply flawed candidate and despite being warned repeatedly she was an incredibly bad matchup against a populist anti-establishment candidate, in a political climate when the electorate was sending the clear message they are fed up with politics as usual…

Yes, maybe we should have had a conversation about the emails much earlier. The DNC ran a candidate who spent the first half of 2016 under threat of indictment, and all the conventional wisdom on the left didn’t see it as a problem.

Ultimately, what does it matter? We don’t elect presidents based on the popular vote.

Well, great. At least we now don’t have to deal with four years of President Trump. Oh, wait... 

Are they working the fake document market?

Yes, I read that. Hillary won those “concerned about the economy”, but Trump significantly won those who said “my financial situation has gotten worse in the last 4 years.” My main point was that Trump got less votes than Romney, so there wasn’t any huge surge of voters pulling the lever in favor of white nationalism.…

The suspension of habeas corpus during the Japanese internment was only legal because we were at war at the time. I mean, I guess they could claim we’re at war now because we are in a permanent state of war somewhere, but I doubt it would fly in the courts. I expect there will be legal challenges to this. It would be…

Someone posted this on Reddit, it makes some interesting points beyond the economic argument why mass deportation is such a bad idea:

She didn’t get millions more popular votes, right now it’s around 575,000.

Actual polling showed the race tightening in the final week, especially in rust belt states like PA, MI, and WI that proved pivotal in the election, it really wasn’t that far off, it was the interpretation of the data by people like Nate Silver that has people criticizing the polls. The GE polling was off by a couple…

That’s certainly true. But we are living in the age of instant information now, I don’t think it’s as much of an unknown quantity as it may have been in the past. We can make pretty good predictions of how it would play out based on the wealth of information that we have, and I just don’t see, barring any as-yet…

Yeah, I get that. But it was an ill-advised and cringeworthy fictional/possibly satirical essay 30+ years ago. Trump was actually involved in discriminatory housing practices and likely sexual assault. I think you’re possibly underestimating how scandal-weary the electorate has become. Some (not all, not “Behghazi” or…

Well, that’s a fair point, but that idea that Sanders wasn’t vetted or didn’t face criticism over his democratic socialism really isn’t true:

You really believe that? How so, exactly, because he saw the now proven weaknesses in the consensus DNC candidate and decided that presented an opportunity to try to take advantage of that to make a presidential run from the left? That’s on the DNC for anointing neoliberal Hillary Clinton almost unchallenged. It’s in…

The polls were off by like 2 points, which is pretty typical for a presidential election, and in the last week they had been tightening especially in the rust belt states like PA, MI and WI. A poll showing a 12 point advantage two days before the election is pretty solid evidence that at minimum Sanders would have had…

The idea that Sanders wasn’t or isn’t interested in building coalitions is a false narrative, pure and simple. Are you implying that Clinton voters wouldn’t have gotten behind Sanders as the nominee because he said mean things about rich people? In the end Clinton, not Sanders, was the one that failed to build a…

That’s simply your opinion and considering how much weight was given to Trump’s ability to “build coalitions” or even maintain a minimum level of civil discourse to those within his own party, I’d say it’s pretty much irrelevant. Certainly not even in the top 20 in a list of voter concerns.

There’s a reason he got millions of votes less than Hillary in the primary