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<blockquote data-quote="Angela Channing" data-source="post: 35692" data-attributes="member: 33">My analysis is that the Democrats didn&#039;t lose because Hillary was not a good enough candidate but because of a wider discontent amongst voters that &quot;the establishment&quot; in general and politicians in particular had failed them for many years. Trump cleverly presented himself as an anti-establishment candidate and that resonated with a large number of disenchanted voters. Any candidate, whether they were from the left or the right, would have found it difficult when people weren&#039;t prepared to listen to facts, policies or reality of the situation and instead preferred the simplistic, popularist rhetoric of an &quot;anti-politician&quot;. Trump rode an anti-establishment, far right-wing wave that is sweeping across many parts of the world and he did that well.I&#039;m not convinced that Bernie would have done any better than Hillary because I question whether his campaign had broad enough appeal to attract enough voters that eventually went for Trump.What the Democrats now have to do is focus a lot more on the needs of their core supporters while still reaching out to Republican voters who will find themselves to be worse off under Trump. This will not be an easy balance to achieve and right now it&#039;s difficult to identify a candidate that would be able to do this but I&#039;m sure by 2020 he or she will emerge, probably from a younger generation of Democratic Party candidates.&quot;Disrespect invites disrespect, violence incites violence and when the powerful use their position to bully others we all lose.&quot; - Meryl Streep </blockquote>

[QUOTE="Angela Channing, post: 35692, member: 33"] My analysis is that the Democrats didn't lose because Hillary was not a good enough candidate but because of a wider discontent amongst voters that "the establishment" in general and politicians in particular had failed them for many years. Trump cleverly presented himself as an anti-establishment candidate and that resonated with a large number of disenchanted voters. Any candidate, whether they were from the left or the right, would have found it difficult when people weren't prepared to listen to facts, policies or reality of the situation and instead preferred the simplistic, popularist rhetoric of an "anti-politician". Trump rode an anti-establishment, far right-wing wave that is sweeping across many parts of the world and he did that well. I'm not convinced that Bernie would have done any better than Hillary because I question whether his campaign had broad enough appeal to attract enough voters that eventually went for Trump. What the Democrats now have to do is focus a lot more on the needs of their core supporters while still reaching out to Republican voters who will find themselves to be worse off under Trump. This will not be an easy balance to achieve and right now it's difficult to identify a candidate that would be able to do this but I'm sure by 2020 he or she will emerge, probably from a younger generation of Democratic Party candidates. [I][SIZE=3]"Disrespect invites disrespect, violence incites violence and when the powerful use their position to bully others we all lose." - Meryl Streep[/SIZE] [/I] [/QUOTE]

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