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Your argument basically comes down to we are standing on the edge of a roof of a burning building and have to jump for it. There is two places we can land, a pile of shit and a large airbag that is safe but ugly.
You are saying that because the airbag had a terrible paisley print we of course decided to fall into the pile of shit that might not even break our fall.
HOW DOES THIS MAKE SENSE?
Hillary made mistakes, no doubt. Mistakes that might have cost her the election against a normal candidate. None of those mistakes were even a tenth of what Trump made. None of them were so big that people should have decided that Trump was the better candidate. Trump talked about his penis during a national debate.
In the end I have to conclude that It did not matter if Hillary ran the perfect campaign. She was not going to win. Americans just decided they wanted the worst piece of trash they could find. Nothing was going to change that.
Two things might have won her the 2016 campaign just off the cuff.
1) a better VP pick than Tim Kaine. No it didn't have to be Bernie.
2) Actually seriously campaigning in those "firewall" states that she lost by merely 70k votes or so according to oft quoted numbers I hear.
Obviously we just disagree.
As for Trump he just was an effective liar he actually convinced quite a lot of people that he was against the TPP (he's not really) among other things.
Do I think people should have voted for Trump? No those who did who are not also hardline Republicans who will vote republican in any event got conned by a lying sack of human feces
It's just that I'm not the only one who thinks Hillary ran a
"scripted, soulless campaign"
https://www.mediaite.com/online/boo...t-blamed-hillarys-soulless-scripted-campaign/
when it became clear that Trump was going to win against public expectations, Obama was flabbergasted the country was going to “replace him with a buffoonish showman whose calling cards had been repeated bankruptcies, serial marriages, and racist dog whistles.” After Obama spoke to Clinton and told her to concede defeat, Baker says the former president and his team put the blame on her for running a “scripted, soulless campaign” that failed to turn his presidency into a winning message.
bold part of the quote my emphasis.
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