Thread by @Ellahbie

It’s time, once again, to disabuse Donut Twitter & their “liberal” blue-checked friends of the notion that @DrJillStein cost @HillaryClinton the election.

Here’s what the map would look like if all @GovGaryJohnson’s votes were tallied for Trump & Stein’s for HRC.

And, to be more than fair, this map shows the states with @MalcolmNance’s votes factored in for Clinton in New Mexico, where he had a significant number of votes. Also, bear in mind, Stein was not on the ballot in Nevada.

When Center Twitter carries on about how Stein cost HRC the Electoral College vote, they always conveniently leave out the Libertarian Johnson who received three times the vote Stein did & whose policies are closer to the GOP’s political philosophies.

It’s simply not equatable to include Stein & not Johnson in a third party debate if your argument is that Hillary would have received all or most of Stein’s votes had Stein not been in the race.

But all this kvetching about Stein ignores two points: 1. More people - 1.7 million - got out to vote down ballot, but left the presidential spot blank than voted for Stein - 1.4 million. washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/w…

And 2. Most Americans simply did not vote. If Apathy was a candidate, he/she would’ve won in a landslide.

Some of the reasons for this certainly include the GOP’s efforts to disenfranchise voters, particularly POC & younger voters, but in 2016, dislike for both Trump & Clinton was at an all-time high, which kept voters away: fivethirtyeight.com/features/ameri…

Factor in Clinton’s refusal to campaign heavily - if at all - in Rust Belt states that have seen their good-paying jobs leave as a result of the very trade policies Clinton & her husband supported, & you get a depressed turn-out in the “firewall” states.

I can’t believe this data has to be repeated in 2018, nearly two years after the election, but given the Dems refusal to do an introspective autopsy on their loss, opting instead to blame a litany of external forces, many people are simply misinformed.

But, thankfully, for progressives, our candidates did look at the data & figured out that whole swaths of Americans feel unrepresented & don’t vote as a result, so they’ve decided to reach out to them.

This is how @Ocasio2018 won Tuesday: She reached out to these disenfranchised people & beat her powerful & entrenched Dem opponent by bringing first-time voters into the mix. A formula her mentor, @SenSanders, espouses. usatoday.com/story/news/pol…

In conclusion, @SenSchumer’s formula to attract two suburban GOP voters for every one lost progressive voter has been proven wrong several times now.

It’s time for Dems to pack Schumer’s idea up & start reaching out to average, independent Americans who want Single Payer, tax-funded college, an end to imperial wars & a solution to income inequality or go the way of the Dodo.

The demographics demand it.