Carefully cultivated to blame anyone and anything except for the elephant in Hillary's panties.
June 6, 2017
It's Not Our Fault! 100-Plus Reasons Hillary Lost
By Brad
WendyMcElroy.com
Brad here. When I first posted this list on November 20, it had 15 or 20 reasons that I had culled from a few news articles. Since then, thanks (much!) to many contributions, I’ve seen and listed over a hundred excuses for the Clinton loss.
Mind you, these are only those excuses which don’t blame the candidate herself or the conduct of her campaign. (Except perhaps “climate change,” which was arguably a campaign failing, but an excuse I couldn’t resist including.) If you were to include all of those blunders, the list might reach a thousand.
So, as an end-of-year wrapup, here is the updated list: as of 31 December 2016, 110 not-her-fault reasons. Why, sometimes it seems like the entire world conspired to keep her from her self-perceived destiny. 1 Jun 2017 update: 132 reasons.
Brad here. Since the Trump victory, Democrats have been in a lather trying to explain it. To be precise, they’ve been looking for any possible explanation other than (a) the Hillary campaign was incompetent, or (b) Hillary was a lousy — corrupt, dishonest, evasive, avaricious, grafting, entitled, arrogant, warmongering — candidate.
No, in the eyes of Democrats, both their candidate and her campaign were flawless, so it must have been something else that cost her the election. Just Google “7 reasons Trump won” (or 5 reasons, or 13 reasons, or 24 reasons, etc.) and you’ll find an assortment of compendiums that would make the most hardened conspiracy theorist shake his head in disbelief. The problem is, no two compendiums are alike. So, as a public service, I have begun the master index of alternative theories about why Clinton lost the election. These are just the theories I’ve encounted in casual reading; I’ll add more as I read more. Feel free to send contributions.
► alien civilization’s computer simulation
► Alisa Shevchenko / Russian hackers
► America’s schools
► Anthony Weiner
► “The Apprentice”
► the “authoritarian dynamic”
► bad forecasting
► Bernie Sanders
► big money / dark money (for Clinton)
► Bill Clinton
► Black Lives Matter
► black men
► Boomers
► “bourgeois feminism”
► Brexit
► British extremist bloggers
► “celebrity outlasts substance”
► cell phone coverage (inadequate)
► Citizens United v. FEC
► climate change (ignored as an issue)
► coal miners
► coalition-building through outrage
► college-educated Americans
► confirmation bias
► “content farms” / 1,000 Russian agents
► “corporate failure”
► “cultural cognition”
► “cultural tightness”
► David Bossie
► Democratic National Committee
► deunionization
► disorder and protests on TV
► “dudebros” (not pretty enough)
► the electoral college
► Facebook
► failure to prosecute bankers
► failure to prosecute war criminals
► “fake news”
► fear of World War III
► Fox News
► free trade
► Friedrich Hayek / capitalism
► gambling
► Gamers
► Gary Johnson / libertarians
► girl Anthony Weiner sexted
► Gloria Steinem
► God
► grocery checkout lines
► hacked voting machines
► Henry Kissinger
► Hillary’s supporters (insufficiently enthusiastic)
► Huma Abedin
► identity politics
► income inequality
► indicative vs. subjunctive mood
► inevitability (of her victory)
► InfoWars
► insular rural Midwesterners
► Internet security (inadequate)
► ISIS
► Israel
► James Comey / the FBI
► Jared Kushner
► Jill Stein
► John Oliver
► Jon Stewart
► Julian Assange / Wikileaks / hacked DNC emails
► the Koch brothers
► Lady Gaga
► Loretta Lynch
► low information voters
► low voter turnout
► Madeline Albright
► the media disliked Hillary / “treated her unfairly”
► the media liked Hillary
► Michael T. Flynn
► millenials
► minorities failed to turn out
► mischievous voters / “Jesse Ventura effect”
► mysterious deaths
► NAFTA
► Netflix
► New York Times
► Obama (himself)
► Obamacare
► the “Obama coalition”
► Obama-Trump defectors
► Obergefell v. Hodges (gay marriage)
► “optimism bias”
► organized labor
► Organizing For Action
► party loyalty
► Paul Horner
► “perceived” corruption
► pessimism / economic despair
► Phyllis Schlafly
► Pizzagate
► Planned Parenthood
► “polarization effect”
► political correctness (more here)
► “post-truth”
► psychological displacement
► racism / xenophobia
► Reagan Democrats
► Republican messaging
► rigged primaries
► rock ‘n’ roll
► Ron Johnson
► Samantha Bee
► Saturday Night Live
► sexism / misogyny
► shaming of Trump supporters
► Shelby County v. Holder
► silent Americans
► social media / Facebook / Twitter
► Susan Sarandon
► Sydney Leathers
► talk radio
► Tea Party
► teenagers in the Balkans
► threat-sensitive people
► three in a row is difficult
► Tom Arnold
► trans rights reaction
► Twitter bots
► vast right-wing conspiracy
► Vladimir Putin / Russian propaganda
► voter suppression / voter ID laws
► “weaponized” news / “weaponization of information
► “white people / “white fear” / “whitelash
► “white women / “internalized misogyny” / “false consciousness”
That’s more than the 66 excuses offered for the “pause” in global warming. http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.ca/2014/11/updated-list-of-64-excuses-for-18-26.html I’m glad to see that climate change, in a roundabout way, finally made this list.
Not yet blamed: the weather, UFOs, the CIA, Mossad, or the Mafia.
P.S. A tip of the hat to Dan Joppich at American Thinker, who sees the parallel between Hillary and Jake Blues of the Blues Brothers:
Honest… I ran out of gas. I… I had a flat tire. I didn’t have enough money for cab fare. My tux didn’t come back from the cleaners. An old friend came in from out of town. Someone stole my car. There was an earthquake. A terrible flood. Locusts! IT WASN’T MY FAULT, I SWEAR TO GOD!
Reprinted from WendyMcElroy.com.
Gold is $1,581/oz today. When it hits $2,000, it will be up 26.5%. Let's see how long that takes. - De 3/11/2013 - ANSWER: 7 Years, 5 Months
| 
