5. This from @willwilkinson was also very prophetic:http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2016/05/29/why-trump-might-win/ …
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6. I had tended to discount such articles because, based on 2008/2012, I assumed Dems would run super competent campaign (GOTV etc).
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7. In Dem primaries I preferred Sanders for political reasons but thought (wrongly) that Clinton had better shot at winning presidency
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8. Connected: I had doubts about Clinton's strategy of pursuing moderate Republican voters, which I voiced but should have foregrounded
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@ggreenwald is right on journalistic responsibility here but the proviso is 2016 presented a special challenge:https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/856166415405076481 …Jeet Heer added,
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10. American journalism has framework for evaluating 2 party races where both candidates roughly equivalent in qualities. 2016 not like that
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11. Clinton was flawed but no more than Romney or Obama or McCain. Trump was off-the-charts terrible (corruption, racism, misogyny etc).
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12. To extend media covered Trump's terribleness, they felt they needed to "balance" it with critique of Clinton. Hence overplay of emails.
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13. Just as media can't deal with asymmetric polarization in policy, so it can't handle asymmetric awfulness of one candidate.
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You know what's counts as being an even bigger failure than Clinton? Someone who runs an anonymous anti-Semitic twitter account.
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