re: #4 Belafon
30 years of disinformation, mainly targeted at the Clintons, led to her defeat. The problem is, the same disinformation campaign produced the electorate for a party that is nearly as dumb as rocks, no matter how much education they have. Thus it gave us Trump.
Add in all of that “Clinton Baggage” also worked on left leaning people. It brought us Bernie too. Too many people that should know better on the liberal/progressive/Democratic side also bought the whole Clinton narrative.