“One thing that Clinton could do is sell herself as the better choice to the white working-class voters who are defecting to Trump.”
Those pesky “working-class (white) voters”. The 1984 Democrat ticket of Fritz and Tits* had the same problem with the bubba vote as Geraldine was simply hated by them. Clinton is learning the hard way that between 70% and 74% of the voting public will STILL be Non-Hispanic Whites, who despise her (in general) and who are clearly despised by her. No surprise there.
What is incredible is that the GOPe also despises these same ‘lower class’ white voters that they need if they ever want to win an election again and were ready to, once-again, eeek out their 55% of that demographic (of the ones that even bother voting), while trying to get enough crumbs from the minority groups that make up the remainder of the electorate. And once again, the Republicans were on a path to big-time defeat.
So Trump comes in and actually notices that neither party is giving a damn about the concerns of roughly half of the entire voting electorate (i.e., roughly 70% of white voters, with the other whites belonging to special interests, such as gays and feminists). And instead of being praised for such AN INCREDIBLY INGENIOUS approach to trying to win - he is attacked from all sides, from the start, as both sides knew Trump had the formula, and both sides (the Dems and the GOPe), for different reasons, could not allow him to win. Oh well.
*Don’t laugh, that was the description of the Democrat ticket that year going around in the working-class bars of the Midwest, as Reagan was on his way to his 49-state landslide. It will be virtually impossible for working-class whites to ever like Hillary...and the Dems are just now figuring that out. What has to really scare them is that Trump is now starting to work on college-educated whites, which Hillary (for whatever reason) still has a majority of. If Trump can bring them on board, there won’t even be a need for an election.