Yeah , you ' re right . People who supported leftist instead of neoliberal ideas had a hard deciding to vote for Hillary . Because she ' s not a leftist . But none of that matters . Hillary and the Democrats decided that the best way to recruit the former Bernie supporters was to continue to blame , mock , and threaten them . Instead of taking on step towards his ideas , she and her staff relied on the threat of Trump . Just like they always do . Obama won because he was running for something . The rest of the Democrats keep losing because they ' re running against something and hoping that ' s enough to prop up their weakass candidacy . Your assessment is as wrong as the rest of them if the reason that Hillary lost doesn ' t put the actions of her and the Democratic party at the top of the list .