text: It's not surprising that Clinton, Inc. is in denial. Every time Winters has pointed out the very obvious weaknesses of Clinton here, he has been shouted down & assailed. There was a sense of inevitability that blinded so many of her ardent supporters, & many of them held the levers of power in the Democratic Party that insulated her. When you take an entire month off to fund raise in Martha's Vineyard, Paris, etc., you have lost your way.
  
  The cracks were there all along: the NY Times reported yesterday that the Clinton campaign tested 84 different slogans, & were still left wondering "what does she really believe"? And they didn't even bother to reach out to Catholics, refusing to speak at a St. Patrick's Day gathering at Notre Dame.
  
  The same dynamics roiling the GOP are also at play in the Democratic Party. But the idiotic ventures of the Ted Cruzes, combined with the culture war victories allowed the Democrats to laugh at their opponents & ignore the underlying fissures.