La sigh.
Normally wouldn't bother to respond, especially to you. But this constant and repeated refrain gets tiresome after a while; it’s like a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, but ultimately signifying nothing as it comes from a place of willful, self-incurred ignorance.
Contrary to your oft repeated delusion, the 'Bernie crowd', the 'progressives', or her 'liberal-base' generally who didn't turn out, where not, in fact, as instrumental in throwing the election for Hillary and the Dems. Her and her's managed to do that effectively themselves.
That's according to the conclusions of a study commissioned by the DNC itself, and now tacitly endorsed by both senior Dems and members of Clinton’s campaign and officials at the Democratic data and analytics firm Catalist.
In short, she lost because voters who previously voted Obama in 2012 voted Trump instead - that is, the Obama-Trump
blue collar white voters, accounted for more than 2/3 of the reason she lost - the rest was mostly running one of the worst campaign in political history - a fact also agreed on by a number of senior Dems and Dem strategist.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/poli...147475484.html
An analysis from the NYT, which called the election first for Trump during election night, has also corroborated that fact. Noting:
To the extent Democratic turnout was weak, it was mainly among black voters. Even there, the scale of Democratic weakness has been exaggerated.
Instead, it’s clear that large numbers of white, working-class voters shifted from the Democrats to Mr. Trump. Over all, almost one in four of President Obama’s 2012 white working-class supporters defected from the Democrats in 2016, either supporting Mr. Trump or voting for a third-party candidate.
The increase in white turnout was broad, including among young voters, Democrats, Republicans, unaffiliated voters, urban, rural, and the likeliest supporters of Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Trump. The greatest increases were among young and unaffiliated white voters.
For this reason alone, it’s hard to argue that turnout was responsible for the preponderance of Mr. Trump’s gains among white voters. The turnout among young and white Democratic voters was quite strong.
Based off analysis of official voter files — data not available until months after the election against pre-election projections.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/28/u...ns-defeat.html
The Democracy Fund Voter Study Group (DFVSG), a non-partisan group, also came up with similar conclusions, among many others.
Encourage you to read - even though I know you won't
https://www.voterstudygroup.org/repo...016-and-beyond
Of course, you’re entitled to your delusions that a marginal minority within the Democratic wing are expressly culpable for the electoral turnout.
But then there are facts -- and at some point, there is a reality.
Ah….. nevermind, I don’t even care enough to comment any more.
Yeah, I think that describes you perfectly too.
(But what is the
real story? This intense animus you harbor for so-called 'progressives'? Are you some kinda of jilted lover who now stalks his girlfriend on Facebook as she gets on with her live and advocating progressive causes? Elsewise, righteous indignation seems a bit unhinged)