November 2016

Some Clinton-voting former friends aren't willing to admit that tactics such as "Bernie Bro," "basket of deplorables," and privilege-shaming helped cost them the election.
They are lashing out with renewed fury at "smug" third party voters who escaped the embarrassment of (i) holding-nose-and-voting-for-Clinton followed by (ii) watching her lose.
They want to be pitied and nurtured in their hour of collective sadness. Goading them or saying "I told you so" will only result in more pain, so here's this GIF:

Some people who considered Clinton the "lesser evil" candidate tarred everyone else (Sanders supporters, Greens, Libertarians) as "Trump voters." They're still doing it -- a less contrite bunch you will not find.

As Carl Beijer notes, Sanders himself is taking the high road after Clinton's defeat but that shouldn't stanch criticism of a lousy campaign by his supporters. (Which the news media is predictably tut-tut-ing about.)

It's pretty easy to understand why they would be angry: by just about every metric imaginable, Hillary Clinton led one of the worst presidential campaigns in modern history. It was a profoundly reactionary campaign, built entirely on rolling back the horizons of the politically possible, fracturing left solidarity, undermining longstanding left priorities like universal healthcare, pandering to Wall Street oligarchs, fomenting nationalism against Denmark and Russia, and rehabilitating some of history's greatest monsters - from Bush I to Kissinger. It was a grossly unprincipled campaign that belligerently violated FEC Super PAC coordination rules and conspired with party officials on everything from political attacks to debate questions...

The mainstream news media was "all in" for the Clintons right up to the last.
Here's one blogger's account of some of the coverage:

My mom-in-law was watching CBS all night, so that’s what we watched. All the pundits/anchors spoke in the hushed tones of a funeral. For two hours, the only images of campaign workers shown were the sad faces of Clinton supporters; not one image of jubilant Trump supporters was broadcast until Trump gave his acceptance speech. When one of the talking heads noted that Hillary never generated the enthusiasm of the Sanders or Trump campaigns, his comment was followed by a stony silence. That he had given voice to a self-evident truth was not welcome.

via Naked Capitalism, one of the few voices of sanity in the election season.

The Queen of Chaos was so sure she was going to win she didn't have a concession speech prepared; she gave some maudlin remarks the next day, aimed at "young women and young girls" (per the Washington Post) to let them know they, too, can eventually earn $225,000 per speech despite "setbacks." OK she didn't say that but what a role model for the young -- good riddance to that. Given how she treated young women and girls who supported Bernie Sanders, it's hard to get worked up about her and Bill "wiping away tears" after she lost. (The word "tears" appears five times in the CNN article.)

Update, November 15: After conceding, Clinton blamed James Comey's late-breaking letter for her campaign loss. Classy. It wasn't the server, it was that letter. Fortunately for us, factions within Comey's shop of horrors ultimately couldn't bear rubber stamping criminality. Hill and Bill almost got away with it. Please let this be the end of them.

Village Voice writer turned Clinton suck-up Joe Conason was obsequious to the bitter end. Way to call'em, Joe.

Update: Graceful in defeat, ready to acknowledge how poorly he misread the popular mood, Conason's follow-up blog post to the above is titled "What Do We Tell the Children About Their Country Now?" Presumably he's not referring to the children of Trump voters.

Update 2: m.po found another example of using children as vehicles for adult whining: a Washington Post story titled "They existed in a girls-can-do-anything world. Then Donald Trump won the White House." Eventually these girls will read about the Clinton Foundation and be mad at Mom for writing this.