The Hillary the hawk article holds up pretty well, I think. It was a tragedy that Clinton decided to offer a foreign policy to the right of Obama's. That contributed to the splintering of votes & lower voter turnout that elected Trump.
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Replying to @HeerJeet @AlexHazanov
Dem turnout wasn’t a problem in most states; in many turnout of Dem-leaning constituencies exceeded 2012. Bigger factor was people voting for Johnson or Putin’s stooge because they fell for stupid shit about Hillary.
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"Dem turnout wasn’t a problem in most states" is hell of way to describe the worst electoral college outcome for Dems in 28 years. The inability to admit Clinton campaign made mistakes is really amazing. I kind of admire it, tbh.
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the HRC campaign made a pile of mistakes, was incredibly arrogant, and ignored how flawed and vulnerable their own candidate was. They did not lose because of some peacenik vote that HRC lost because of foreign policy. Hell, who even -is- that? Construct that demographic.
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Yep. If you know much about voting behavior/political coalitions/election data/political demographics, it’s hard to even respond to that. It’s like an MD being contradicted by a crystals & essential oils zealot Where do these people live outside the imaginations of the Breunigs?
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I'm going to bang my head against this rock because it speaks to me for some dumb reason. But the idea that somehow "hawkish tendencies" is the reason the bottom fell out of white non-college in WI, PA, and MI is dumb enough that I might have a stroke.
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Hawkish tendencies which were part of a larger campaign that focused on suburban GOP voters at the expense of traditional Democrats. What's amazing is that they didn't alienate even more Democrats than they did. But that's because Trump was awful.
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Please carefully read the first paragraph from my 2016 article.pic.twitter.com/65PsdQF0vO
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I think the 2016 article, since it's longer than the tweet, gets the nuances right: that Clinton did bring up Trump's recklessness but her message got buried by her hawkishness & courting of GOP vote (including GOP Nat Sec vote). Is that so hard to understand?
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