Starting with the one person who, more than any other, bears the greatest responsibility for last night’s tragedy…
Jill Stein.
If it hadn’t been for her deluded unicorns-and-ice-cream fantasies of universal health care and an end to militarism, the 64,000 people who voted for her in Florida would have had to vote for Clinton, who of course was entitled to their votes in the first place.
(Clinton’s margin of loss in the state was 128,000? And Johnson got 200,000 votes? Still Stein’s fault.)
Next, all the holier-than-thou self-proclaimed progressives who spend the entire campaign disparaging Clinton. Their relentless harping on ancient history like Libya and Goldman Sachs succeeded in fatally dampening enthusiasm for the Democrat.
Nor will posterity forgive their perfidious idol Bernie Sanders. Who can calculate how much damage he inflicted on Clinton with his egotistical challenge to her nomination, his insane belief that his platform was a viable challenge to Clinton’s neoliberalism.
If the DNC hadn’t done its best to insure the nomination for Clinton, a Sanders ticket would have guaranteed defeat in the general election.
That is, a larger defeat.
