ever appeared. But people believed in droves.

Added to the salacious mix of facts and fancy is Hillary herself. Her public persona is forceful and shrill, making her an inherently unlikable violator of feminine norms. Public displays of unwomanly strength supported accusations of warmongering. Indeed, she was willing to endorse military actions, which the Republicans should have loved, but not from a woman. Her style of pulling back and hiding when a wrong was exposed certainly did not help: Trump practically crowed about his, and by embracing them, the scandals lost power. Hillary prevaricated on Whitewater, providing the juju to revive that zombie as evidence that she lies. Unfortunately, she does lie and exaggerate, but has been documented by Politifact and others as lying far less than most (includingBernie). Trump is probably a pathological liar, given his bizarre need to spin stories about huge inauguration crowds and Electoral College margins. She is far less flawed than Trump, but the actual flaws were woven into a story where she plays the evil witch.

Bernie Sanders had never been a member of the Democratic party, actually being a for-real Socialist. Socialism is not a bad word in most of the world, but it has long been vilified in America. He broke with Democrats legislatively on a range of issues including gun control. He was never known as anyone who could get a bill passed. He shared none of his campaign funds with other Democrats and campaigned for no down-ticket candidates, yet used the Democratic machine in a crass display