Bad Bob wrote:
Hillary was a good loser.
I think so. Surely she was a great deal more gracious when Donald T***p w*n the e*******l college in 2016, than he was when Joe Biden won both the e*******l college and the popular v**e in 2020.
For anyone who doubts she was a good loser: Hillary gave a public concession speech after the 2016 e******n. Here it is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khK9fIgoNjQ (title: "Hillary Clinton FULL Concession Speech | E******n 2016"). Between 7:06 and 7:19 in that video, she says:
"Last night, I congratulated Donald Trump and offered to work with him on behalf of our country. I hope that he will be a successful president for all Americans."
Contrastingly, Donald Trump gave an attempted c**p instead of a concession speech, and would have plunged the U.S. into chaos if his plans had worked. It would have been mob rule.
According to
https://www.npr.org/2020/11/02/929085584/how-to-lose-an-e******n-a-brief-history-of-the-p**********l-concession-speech :
"It began as a simple courtesy, with a telegram that William Jennings Bryan sent to his opponent, William McKinley, two days after the e******n of 1896.
"Lincoln, Neb., November 5.
"Hon. Wm. McKinley, Canton, Ohio: Senator Jones has just informed me that the returns indicate your e******n, and I hasten to extend my congratulations. We have submitted the issue to the American people and their will is law.
"W.J. Bryan
"Those two sentences are considered to be the first public concession in U.S. p**********l politics. The tradition has
continued — in some form or another — in every e******n since."[until Trump]
"Ultimately, the concession isn't about the losing candidate accepting the loss, it's about their supporters accepting it." [That's how to support the continuation of a democracy or democratic republic.]
Democratic candidates, such as Al Gore (and probably John Kerry) (and maybe Hillary Clinton, I suppose), had plenty of reasons to be suspicious of their opponents' wins. The investigative journalist Greg Palast gives details. (One can look up the books by that author, or for more recent news see gregpalast.com .). (One of his recent books is titled "How Trump Stole 2020". He's said the title was intended as a warning, not a prediction.). (We see now that Trump may have narrowly missed stealing the 2020 e******n, on J****** 6, 2021.)