Look, the point isn't whether or not most of the crap said about her was true or not. I've long ago concurred that Republicans are pathological liars and virtually all, if not entirely all, of the criticisms they made of her were a pack of lies and distortions. We've no argument on that score. The point is that it *worked* with far too many stupid Americans (who are legion, btw).

On the West coast and in the NE coast it doesn't hurt to be associated with her (in fact, it probably helps). But in the other 40 states she is largely reviled. It doesn't matter if that revulsion is justified or not, she hurts candidates in virtually all of those 40 states by supporting them.

If we learned nothing else from the 2016 election, we should at least recognize that the ideas of Third Way New Democrats were rejected in the most forceful and destructive manner imaginable and no longer have any place in our politics.