Why can’t we have both/and here? It’s true that the HRC campaign screwed the pooch by not paying attention to where lots of people were coming from. It is also true that there were a crapton of racist sexist lunatics that came out of the woodwork that are not persuadable and needed to be beaten. It is also true, recall, that Clinton won millions more votes than the other guy. And that a lot of those votes were from the non-privileged. So yes, Clinton should have damn well shown up in Michigan and had a simpler, more relatable, and more positive message. But that is not the sole explanation for the disaster that happened.