My assertion that Clinton couldn't win was hardly hindsight. The state in which I have lived for over thirty years now is highly representative of the flyover region. I know these people. Bernie has and had the populist appeal that could have won these people over. Hillary did not. I pointed that out very early in the process - well before even the Indiana primary; just as I am pointing out now that Liz will not carry Indiana in the primary for the same reason that she would not win the general. Mind, I find absolutely no joy in saying that. I think she would make an excellent President - much better than Joe or that little twit from South Bend. But the flyovers won't vote for her and since there's been no movement on abandoning that last vestige of capitulation to Slave States (our Electoral College), we'll need at least a handful of flyover states to remove the Orange Menace.
As far as "helping to sell her to the right" goes, you cannot be serious. The people of the flyovers *still* think she did something wrong with her email server. They *still* believe she got away with murdering Vince Foster. They *still* believe she should have gone to prison over Benghazi and a non-trivial subset of them *still* believe she was running a child porn operation through a pizza joint. In their minds, if Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity or Tucker Carlson or [insert Fox News Deplorable here] doesn't say it, it isn't true. They are *never* going to be informed people. They are *never* going to be decent human beings. They are *never* going to possess even the slightest bit of empathy save the tiny amount they feel toward members of their own tribe of jesus fans. In short, you demand the impossible.
As far as "helping to sell her to the right" goes, you cannot be serious. The people of the flyovers *still* think she did something wrong with her email server. They *still* believe she got away with murdering Vince Foster. They *still* believe she should have gone to prison over Benghazi and a non-trivial subset of them *still* believe she was running a child porn operation through a pizza joint. In their minds, if Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity or Tucker Carlson or [insert Fox News Deplorable here] doesn't say it, it isn't true. They are *never* going to be informed people. They are *never* going to be decent human beings. They are *never* going to possess even the slightest bit of empathy save the tiny amount they feel toward members of their own tribe of jesus fans. In short, you demand the impossible.