Screw Douhat. It was Comey. "good enough that if you gave it a foil as unpopular and prone to self-sabotage as Trump, it would push even a flawed candidate like Hillary over the top."

This is utter bullshit. She would have won in a walk if it were not for Comey.

"But what mattered most was that all the messaging and advertising produced by the Clinton campaign and the culture industry couldn’t persuade millions of voters who feared Trump to vote against him — and that the Hillary campaign’s data and turnout operation, staffed by the technocracy’s best and brightest, couldn’t turn a small but solid polling lead into the electoral vote advantage that they always knew they needed."

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Sun Jan 01 2017 13:45:45 GMT-0600 (CST)