I swore I would avoid the Josh Green piece on the Clinton campaign, but I am apparently as weak as many of you suspect, and lo and behold, it was every bit as much a disaster as expected. Reading this, it almost appears sympathetic to Hillary in the respect that she really was led astray by infighting and foolish advice, all while being beaten handily at every part of the game by the Obama campaign. Regardless, that is a foolish notion, as Hillary herself, at the end of the day, is and was responsible for her campaign.
Of particular interest to me was the fact that the Clinton campaign really was just attempting to game the system with Florida and Michigan, and all the acrimony they whipped up amongst die-hard Clinton supporters about counting votes remains as deplorable and despicable and self-serving as everyone said it was at the time. They never cared about the votes in Florida and Michigan other than as a means to an end, despite all their lofty and fake rhetoric about counting every vote.
Reading through the litany of misfires and infighting wasn’t so much illuminating as it was confirmation of everything we thought we already knew. I don’t know how anyone can not look at the hash her internal campaign was and think anything other than that we dodged a bullet when she lost. If these guys were in charge right now, they would be publicly fighting over whose fault Georgia was while trying to figure out if launching ICBM’s at Russia would poll well with women voters and white males.