In the aftermath of Hillary Clinton’s stunning defeat in November, Democrats have acted like a toddler who couldn’t get their way. They’ve publicly attacked the electoral college, Wikileaks, Russia, and the FBI. They cursed about Republicans and Trump, and have thrown themselves into conspiracies and witch hunts.
Luckily for them, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has released a book to explain what Democrats still can’t understand. They lost because they ran Hillary Clinton.
Assange’s book titled How I Lost by Hillary Clinton includes a forward by the Wikileaks founder and then a series of quotes from the former First Lady. It also has excerpts from her paid speeches to Goldman Sachs, and e-mails between her and her campaign manager John Podesta.
“Judging by the stance of the leadership of the Democratic Party and much of the media, Hillary Clinton’s devastating loss in the presidential election of November 2016 was all the fault of pernicious Russian leaks, unwarranted FBI investigations and a skewed electoral college,” Assange said in the book. “Rarely blamed was the party’s decision to run a deeply unpopular candidate on an uninspiring platform.”
“The refusal of the Democratic leadership to identify the real reasons for their defeat is not just a problem of history,” he continued. “If Democrats persevere with a politics that prioritizes well-off professionals rather than ordinary Americans, they will leave the field open to right wing populism for many years to come.”
While the book was published at the beginning of the year, it has been gaining in popularity given that the Democratic Party still has refused to acknowledge why she lost and Clinton’s public condemnations of Wikileaks.
You can’t blame WikiLeaks when what we leaked was your words and positions. Blame yourself. https://t.co/Alr8xx626B
— Julian Assange (@JulianAssange) May 3, 2017
