Who is to blame.

[Pat Mustard]

How many opponents did Trump clobber in the 'pub primary ?   17 ??

And did it occur to Hillary she needed to up her game to avoid being #18 ??

Sometimes there are these things called 'clues', and the savvy candidate should feel some motivation to pick up on them and (re)act accordingly.

Do we blame Trump for internal democrat polling that missed 10,000,000 democrats that voted for Obama who were going to sit out the 2016 election ?

Well we can blame the repubs for denying (at least) 7m US citizens their right to vote on the spurious grounds that two different people with the same name were one person trying to vote two different states. Remember the only double voter was a Drumpfuck.

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As a citizen of an outsider looking at his campaign from afar I can say that it looked racist from here in the UK. Maybe you have a different level of tolerance for bigotry over there

Sadly, we probably do.  Scott Alexander put up a lengthy blog post on how the attempts to paint Trump as a racist were so overboard as to perhaps work in his favor.  I'm not entirely sold on his premise, but he does show how the media narrative contrasted with what Trump was actually saying both in the past and as he campaigned.

Note that Alexander is not excusing Trump --on the contrary, he is convinced that Trump will be a disaster as President-- but pointing out that the media's desire to point out his racism led to a "boy who cried wolf" type of scenario where potential voters went tone-deaf to the message.

But his analysis fails because it fails to take into account that the media only started pointing out that he is a racist in the final furlong. The wishy washy attitude to Herr Obersturmbanngroppenfuhrer and his KKK kronies is what legitimised their campaign.