the excitement he stoked with his campaign shouldve had the party crawling to him.
Not a Dem, but the monolithic excitement that Bernie stoked was among people who were loud but don't vote. Primaries and every election are decided by votes. With a 4 million vote gap Clinton's ticket to The General was decided by those voters, as is tradition. The DNC couldn't "wake up" to something that dismissed those 4 million any more than the RNC could dismiss Trump. Also tradition, is the winner, not the DNC, deciding who the running mate will be. Why would Clinton choose someone she thinks she can't work with? I bet that's why Obama didn't chose her in 2008. Seems to me, the party did a symbolic crawl by adopting important parts of Bernie's rhetoric onto the Dem platform, going further to the left than ever before.
Clinton did run a poor campaign but with the toxic left campaigning loudly against her until the very end, it's not surprising to me that she lost. You guys defeated yourselves as much as Clinton did.
Trump won because republicans did what republicans do, vote for some gains rather than none and we don't eat our own. Trump managed to make the toxic tea party wing of my party insignificant, the Dems will have to figure out how to make their toxic tea party wing insignificant too or they will continue to lose. IMO, they do this by remembering their traditional voting bloc in policy and letting that be the loudest message. I don't believe Dems can win by going further to the left anymore than going further to the right was a winning formula for us. Of course this is all water under the bridge. Dem voting habits have destroyed the party.
I hope millennials realize that is a supermajority is delivered in the 2018 elections they will have lost every possibility for the future they envision. With all the law changes we will enact, all future Dem wins will be in name only, think North Carolina but with SCOTUS enshrining laws and constitutional amendments. There would be no legal way to enact any change. It would all have to be by revolution and that is not a win for anyone.
I like the idea of "checks and balances" and some of the Dem talking points, so occasionally they get my vote. It would be too bad if that possibility went away.