Older RATs saw their centrist party-members all around them defecting to Trump, young rats did not.
Young RATS controlled the input into ADA, HRC's election model, missing the Trump Democrats (unknown unknowns for them) and let them leave without fight.
Trump then Won, and RATS *cannot* own up to that, for it would be admitting that THEY, themselves, killed the Democrat party.
Maybe if the Democrat Party went EVEN FURTHER LEFT they could capture the middle...but probably not. Ten years ago even Obama had to be for traditional marriage, rare abortion, and gender based bathrooms. They went full retard out on the left-most branch of the tree and now they are wondering why they can’t get the votes in the middle. This ain’t rocket science, bolsheviks...
1. Shrillary spoke to teens--the worst voters in the world.
2. She spoke to Hispanics, notoriously conservative, though they will always accept free tacos at any rally. So they DIDN'T vote for her.
3. She assumed that since she had the press in her pocket she was a shoe-in.
4. Her hubby DIDN'T SOAK the media with: "Vote for mah wife; she's the BEST!"
5. She totally ignored her Democrat male base.
**I didn't make this up. This was the consensus from BOTH sides.
Some 95% of all the personal woe in this world is self-induced.
The Democrats, by their clueless misreadings of the popular will, put themselves into this bind, and whine that they were “misunderstood”.
On the contrary, they were understood only all too well. Collectively, people are a lot smarter than the Democrats give them credit for.