2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: We Should Only Let Democrats Choose Our Nominee [View all]lapucelle
(18,252 posts)What people did expect was that those who claimed to be Democrats during the primary would support the most progressive platform in decades by actually showing up on election day and voting Democratic in the general.
I have absolutely no respect for Stein & Co. after the way they illegally purchased the convention credentials of Sanders delegates who were going home after the first day. The use of illegally obtained credentials to advance the deliberate disruption of my party's convention in order to draw votes away from my party's nominee was the very depth of unethical behavior.
And while it may be somewhat productive to speak of better engaging with non-Democrats like Greens and Libertarians, I think most people realize that the problem this cycle was the BoBs and the lazy, entitled no-show bitter knitters who were played and pwned by pretty much everyone except the woman they refused to vote for. They were instrumental in putting Trump in the White House, and 65,000,000+ angry voters know it.