re: #420 NO SMOCKING GUN!

No, that’s not what happened. A massive disinformation campaign, conducted by rightwing, mainstream, and left-wing media convinced voters across the political spectrum that Clinton was as dishonest as Trump. It wasn’t just Bernie supporters who voted third party.

And at the heart of that disinformation campaign were allegations that the DNC had “rigged” the entire primary system in Hillary’s favor, from superdelegates endorsing her months before the first votes were cast, to assertions that the sequence of primaries and caucuses were designed to demoralize Bernie supporters by giving her an early lead, to the usual conspiracy theories such as claims that the DNC had engineered this primary or that caucus to keep out Bernie supporters or inflate the number of Clinton supporters.