He currently represents a state that is rural and white. He actually knows how to campaign there.

The main problem was new laws passed right after the Supreme Court struck down the Voting Rights Act. Courts were starting to strike those down, but left them in place for this election because it happened so close to the election. This was the first election since then.

But outperformed HRC by double digits.

I live in rural, red MI, and I know several real life Trump voters who told me they would rather have voted for Bernie.

Which states would he have lost that Hillary won?

Oh, absolutely blame this ELECTION on WHITE women. We own it, and it is totally on the heads of WHITE WOMEN.

This is the best critique I’ve seen anywhere. I think you nailed it.

Women have *always* been the most vicious critics of other women.

Sanders would have won Michigan and Wisconsin. Pennsylvania and Ohio would at least have been closer. I can’t think of any states she won that Sanders would have lost.

In 2000, I was living in a safely blue state (WA) and believed that if I voted for Nader that that would signal my displeasure with the centrist corporate candidate the Dems nominated, and they would get the message.

Given that I live in one of those regions...yes, yes I do.

Honestly, it feels exactly like 2004 did.

You’re right about working hard and looking forward, but you also have to be sure to listen to the Trump voters so that you learn the right lessons. This was as much about rural white folk feeling ignored as anything else. The racism and misogyny were secondary effects, not the primary causes.

I think it’s possible. Bernie doesn’t *look* like an other, and he doesn’t channel the elitist condescension that sets a lot of people off.

Bernie would have done better, because this was an outsider vs insider thing. But we’ll never know if he would have won.

I’m in MI, and anyone in this state who didn’t think it was going to be close wasn’t paying attention.

As I said repeatedly during the primaries, you can quash the populist revolution on the left. But it just gets you a populist revolution on the right.

That might be what you remember, but he pushed anti-TPP, rein in Wall Street, and a $15 minimum wage even harder.

As I said during the primaries...if you shut down the populist revolution on the left, it just means you get a populist revolution on the right.

I’m in a small town in western Michigan. There were a lot of people out proudly voting Trump today.