Ken Burch
Nov 7, 2021

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Hillary lost because the platform didn't have the words "We Oppose the Trans-Pacific Partnership", and that trade deal was Trump's big issue in '16. After what happened in Buffalo, the Democratic Party no longer has any right to demand progressives "vote Blue, no matter who". 80% of Sanders voters voted Hillary in '16, btw, which was a higher than the percentage of Hillary supporters who voted for Obama in '08, even though, unlike Bernie supporters in '16, Hillary's supporters had no valid grievances against the Obama campaign.

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Ken Burch
Ken Burch

Written by Ken Burch

Retired Alaska ferryboat steward, grandparent, sometime poet. Radical yet independent of dogma. Likes nice days, playing banjo and not as yet dying of Covid.

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