{"id":49649,"date":"2016-09-19T09:01:53","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T13:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=49649"},"modified":"2016-09-19T09:01:53","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T13:01:53","slug":"even-the-democratic-partys-propaganda-organ-huffpo-has-written-hillarys-political-obituary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=49649","title":{"rendered":"Even the Democratic Party’s Propaganda Organ HuffPo Has Written Hillary’s Political Obituary"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why Hillary Lost: A Premature Obit<\/h1>\n

The blame game has already begun. Here\u2019s where Democrats will point the finger if she loses.<\/h2>\n

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by\u00a0Howard Fineman,\u00a0Jason Linkins,\u00a0Lauren Weber
\nThe Huffington Post<\/p>\n

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On the high, crenelated ramparts of Castle Clinton, a chill breeze is stirring \u2015 a faint but gnawing sense that the White Walkers are coming, wearing \u201cMAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN\u201d baseball caps on their skinless noggins.<\/p>\n

If Donald Trump does sack the fortress, no one who lost the battle will want to admit it was Hillary Clinton\u2019s fault. It will have had nothing to do with, say, \u201ctransparency\u201d or calling bearded villagers \u201cdeplorables\u201d or the Iraq War vote or the simple fact that middle-of-the-road Clintonism ran out of gas as a public philosophy.<\/p>\n

No, other individuals, groups and forces will have to be blamed. In fact, they already are, pre-emptively. If Trump wins, we\u2019re all going to be too busy moving to Canada to read the postmortems (or write them), so we offer them to you now:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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THE MEDIA
\nEveryone\u2019s pi\u00f1ata. Trump will blame the media. Gary Johnson will blame the media. Jill Stein will blame the media. (The media will ask, \u201cWait, which one was Jill Stein?\u201d)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n
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THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING
\nActually, they arrived long ago and got into her phone.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n
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MILLENNIALS
\nUgh. F**cking idealists, right?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n
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BERNIE SANDERS
\nRemember when people worried that running unopposed in the primary would hurt Clinton? It’s going to be an endless wail about how Sanders should have withdrawn sooner.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n
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BILL CLINTON
\nYou know how this will go down: Best campaigner of all time and he couldn\u2019t close the sale. He lost his mojo.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n
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SEXISTS
\nUgh. F**cking glass ceiling.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n
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OBAMA PEOPLE
\nIf they could delete all of David Axelrod’s tweets, they would.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n
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JAMES COMEY
\nHe might as well have indicted her for real, like he did in the court of public opinion. Extremely careless.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n
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DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ AND THE DNC
\nHer Soviet-style approach to boosting Clinton was something that Hillary\u2019s campaign was happy to countenance. But the former DNC chairshould have left room for dissent rather than let it bottle up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Photos: Getty, Associated Press<\/small><\/p>\n

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