So tell me again where we went "wrong".

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43. The party went wrong by making itself seem too disconnected from those things

For a lot of voters the minimum wage is an important issue. For the party elites it's merely a talking point. And despite how much time people around here spend calling voters stupid, they're not. They know the party is disconnected. I remember how many mocked Sanders for getting platform concessions, screaming at us that the platform is meaningless. Well, turns out people believe that when it comes to Hillary too.

Probably the most shocking example of campaign disconnectedness was the colored people time joke. Nobody who actually lives in our world would make that mistake. But the arguably more important error was ignoring the base. How long after the convention was she simply absent from the stage? Again, nobody who lives in our world would make that mistake. No campaign in the rust belt. The dumb comment about Nancy Reagan and AIDS. Over and over, she and the other party elites remind all of us that they're out of our loop. And over and over we're reminded that we have to stay out of theirs because we can't afford the entry fee.

So while she might say all the right things, most voters know no connection to her, and therefore no basis to trust her. When you're already suffering from a "trustworthiness" problem (doesn't matter if it's not fair), and a bunch of people already doubt your word, what you say becomes irrelevant. As for what she did? Silent on DAPL (would have been an awesome chance to stand up for the rights of minorities). Profoundly negative campaign (including accidental release of one last attack ad against Bernie). Swooped in and put her stamp of approval on DWS while voters were furious at her. Exploited the very campaign finance loopholes she was railing against. And there's this latest dumb stunt.

I'd say things went pretty wrong when she shot at her own feet every single day.

I'm with you on the EC comment. But our candidate was bad too. After all, there's no EC in the Senate, but the Senate got clobbered. Obviously the problem is beyond just the EC.

We need a primary structure that can filter out these sorts of problems.