[from the article]
Clinton stated broadly that she takes “absolute personal
responsibility” for her failure to win the White House. Yet the Democratic
nominee declined to fault her strategy or message, nor did she acknowledge her
own weaknesses as a campaigner or the struggles by her and her advisers to at
first comprehend and then respond to the angry mood of broad swaths of the
electorate.
Instead, Clinton attributed her defeat to a range of external forces,
including saying she was a victim of misogyny and of “false equivalency” in the
news media.
Sort of like the classic non-apology apology. Obviously there are
myriad factors at work in any close election, but I’d prefer my losing
candidates to do more reflection and less whining. (Not to mention how it feeds
into the whole Trumpublican narrative that the Democrats are more concerned
about re-litigating the election than about the well- being of the country.)
