Jonathan Kinloch, the Democratic Party’s chair of the 13th Congressional District, comprised of Detroit’s west and southwest sides, as well as 10 blue-collar suburbs said that what happened was about “the conversation that the Clinton campaign needed to have with the souls of white America,†and with white voters’ “counter-response to the first African-American president.â€
No. This had nothing to do with race.
For many women, the election was a one-two punch. A huge milestone that had seemed so tantalizingly close — the election of a woman as president — was now out of reach. And the victorious candidate was one who had denigrated women, mocked a beauty pageant contestant for her weight, described grabbing women by the genitals with impunity, and been accused of multiple instances of sexual assault.
Negative. Had nothing to do with the fact that she was a woman. Wasn't even a consideration for most.
IM(always right)O it came down to these eight things:
1) Zero charisma. She sounded shrill. Her speeches were essentially her braying and shouting at people. She had trouble generating even the most basic human responses to things. As idiotic as it sounds people are shallow. Her absurd reaction to balloons, for instance, showed just how "not like us" she was. It put people off and made it difficult for her message to get through. That's probably a good thing because her message was spectacularly shitty.
2) Message of failure. Why vote for her? What ideas of her own did she bring? She was essentially "vote for me since Obama can't run again and I'm just going to do what he's been doing." That wasn't going to work in a country where joblessness (not unemployment) is running at 10% or more. Not going to work in a country where economic growth has been stagnant. Not going to work in a country where healthcare costs have tripled since the plan she championed and tried to take credit for was implemented. Not going to work in a country where the majority (yes, majority) sees us as weaker internationally and feels like the current administration has eschewed America to kowtow to Islam, Cuba, Japan, China....
3) Out of touch. She cannot relate to the real life daily lives of people who work to make a living every day. Chelsea's $3 million wedding, her disaffection with work (because she doesn't care about money) and all the money that the Clinton's pulled in while claiming to be "dead broke" really alienated a lot of people.
4) Star power. Dragging around Jay Z and Beyonce, Justin Timberlake and Katy Perry didn't help her at all. It backfired.
5) Courting minorities and ignoring real America. Wes said it best somewhere in one of these threads where he said the Republicans had no choice but to embrace diversity and pander to the fringe groups. Wrong. The fringe is the fringe for a reason. The country wanted someone who spoke to the core and quit catering to the edges. Take all the LGBTQFH in the country. Add in every black and hispanic. Even at 100% participation, you don't have a majority and you're going to lose. She forgot everybody else. Mistake.
6) Ethics. She had a chance to address the email security allegations. To simply say "I made a mistake, shouldn't have done it, was wrong." Instead, she defiantly lied. She showed herself to be unacquainted with the truth, unable to accept responsibility. She had an opportunity to discuss the massive foreign donations that built her personal wealth (donations that are going to dry up now) but rather than confronting the allegations she deflected and claimed that the REAL problem was Russian hackers. Even after she was crushed in the election, she and her team didn't waver from that. At every turn, her campaign team responded with "It doesn't matter what we did, the issue here is how you found out..." That moved people away in droves. She lied about everything even down to claiming she'd been under 'sniper fire' The way she did it, with that smugness and disdain for everyone who had the audacity to question her alienated normal people.
7) Fear. There was legitimate and very real fear that her policies would weaken the constitution. Her closest advisor had strong ties to jihadists. Her efforts to demonize Trump rather than articulate what she wanted to do (which was nothing other than be president and enrich herself) broke her. People were afraid of her. She had globalist views. Trump was an American nationalist.
8) Arrogance. There was a point where she said she couldn't understand how she wasn't up by 50 points. Trump correctly countered that if she were a man she wouldn't get 5% of the vote. That was the reality. She never once thought there was a chance she could lose. She'd rigged the primaries and had no one around her willing to tell her the truth or correctly read the mood of the country.
One of my (former) friends is a staunch Clinton supporter. After months of heckling, I asked him to give me one single reason to vote for her. To name one thing she stood for or had done to warrant my support. His response? "Well,Donald Trump..." He was never able to do it. Take away the Clinton name and the fact that she was a woman and she brought nothing but lies, deceit, failure and shrillness to the table. What else did she have to offer?
This wasn't some referendum on race as that bleating idiot on CNN would have you believe. That guy needs to have his bespectacled ass whipped. It wasn't a repudiation of women. It was a rejection of her personally and professionally and a national decision to overturn the vision Obama has attempted to force on us by Executive Order.
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