[Andrew Mandelbaum]

The issue here isn't whether Clinton's people would have wanted Comey fired but what is Trump hoping to avoid by doing so. Come on yourself, Richard. If you can't see involvement from Putin, even if it was just one factor, as a problem then what would it take to be concerned. Not because "Russians" were involved, but because at every level, from local to international, the public sphere is being informed and directed by fat-sucking thugs out for their own empires.

There are all sorts of reasons why Hillary Clinton was not trusted by many on the so-called left and more reasons why she didn't win in the predicted landslide. She has a terrible sense of judgment when it comes to appearing in the public sphere and a disappointing approach to the issues.
But that doesn't change the fact that if you believe in the present form of US democracy (which I don't) and you think she lost the election because of her own failings, you are a dupe.

Why she lost the election is elementary. The collapse of voters right and the orchestration of voter suppression in key counties gave Trump the victory that he never could have managed without the techniques employed by local technicians. It is a class war leveraged by race and other self-inflicted stupidities like millionaires in the sky and the Republican/Democrat delusion of representation. Look at Wisconsin alone and its obvious. You can defend your hesitation to be about rolling guillotines into the square by claiming tactical concerns or the legitimacy of means but not in any tenable sense of just deserts at this point.

The relative ease with which most people accept the completely unhidden manipulation as "politics" and scoff at the idea of a grand scheme to control the population through misdirected anxiety and generalized stupidity is the truly amazing part. I guess Oreos and Netflix are just to good to risk on anything utopian like common decency or a fair share of resources among individuals and species.

Not that the original post's subject isn't important. It is. As a lever to pry an unstable moron away from the nuclear codes and the tax laws. Because there is a distinction between levels of jack-assery. Not collapsing that with the above. Just sayin.