(November 30, 2016 at 4:29 pm)Tiberius Wrote: Of course Minimalist would think that; he was delusional regarding Clinton's success and popularity throughout the campaign.
What he seems to forget is that personal issues didn't seem to matter in this election; Trump won despite openly admitting to sexual abuse, among other personal scandals. What the people in the rust belt states cared about was a candidate who represented them. Clinton wasn't that candidate for them; Trump was, however delusional that might sound. Sanders knew how to speak to those people; he would have likely won over a number of the voters who looked at Clinton and saw "more of the same".
Never underestimate the potency of the word 'socialist' when wielded by conservatives in this country. Yes, Sanders would have appealed to a number of people who weren't enthralled with Clinton (I'm speaking here of voters who weren't already on board with Sanders in the primaries), but once the GOP successfully branded him as a Socialist or "worse" a vast number of working class voters would have fled like cockroaches in the light.
Such is America.
