https://twitter.com/jmyers1971/status/1088997926758768641?s=21
This seems like a good spot to link an old thread:
In the assorted political threads, there’s been a minority but persistent view expressed that Bernie Sanders, or the Sanders campaign, or Sanders supporters are in some way responsible for Clinton’s loss.
So, this is the thread to bring those arguments into focus; have at it.
But I may as well begin by getting my own position on the table. I’ll do it by framing and responding to what I see as some of the standard critiques.
Hillary lost because Bernie made her look bad during the primary
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The DNC-manufactured narrative that Bernie supporters were somehow responsible for Clinton losing to Trump is, and always has been, blatant nonsense.
Twice as many Clinton supporters voted for McCain in ‘08 as Bernie supporters voted for Trump in ‘16:
Another useful comparison is to 2008, when the question was whether Clinton supporters would vote for Barack Obama or John McCain (R-Ariz.) Based on data from the 2008 Cooperative Campaign Analysis Project , a YouGov survey that also interviewed respondents multiple times during the campaign, 24 percent of people who supported Clinton in the primary as of March 2008 then reported voting for McCain in the general election.
An analysis of a different 2008 survey by the political scientists Michael Henderson, Sunshine Hillygus and Trevor Thompson produced a similar estimate: 25 percent. (Unsurprisingly, Clinton voters who supported McCain were more likely to have negative views of African Americans, relative to those who supported Obama.)
Thus, the 6 percent or 12 percent of Sanders supporters who may have supported Trump does not look especially large in comparison with these other examples.
Clinton’s support for Obama in the ‘08 general was massively outweighed by Bernie’s support for Clinton in ‘16:
https://twitter.com/rick_sl8/status/1098014951212498945?s=21
The continuous and shameless gaslighting around the 2016 election that the Clintonite/DNC faction has engaged in for the last two years has been truly astonishing to watch.
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