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Below is a roundup of the scapegoats progressives blame for Clintons loss.

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1. Fake News

Hillary Clinton used her first public speechsince her election loss to blame the epidemic rise of fake news for her defeat.

The epidemic of malicious fake news and false propaganda that flooded social media over the past year its now clear the so-called fake news can have real-world consequences, Clinton said earlier this month in a speech on Capital Hill.

Clinton said lives are at risk because of fake news, calling ita danger that must be addressed and addressed quickly.

2. Huma Abedin

Clinton advisors, still reeling from defeat, blamed her longtime aide Huma Abedin for their loss.

She was enjoying the red carpet and enjoying the photo spreads much too much in my opinion, a close Clinton insider toldVanity Fair.She enjoyed being a celebrity too much.

Abedin, whod spent 20 years as one of Clintons closest confidants, caused a campaign crisis weeks before the election aftertheFBI announcedthatemails related to its Clinton private server investigation were found on a laptop shared by Abedin and herestranged husband Anthony Weiner, who is being investigated for allegedly sending sexually explicit messagesto a 15-year-old girl.

3. Putins Personal Beef

Hillary Clinton claimed last week that Russias hack of her campaign was an attackto undermine our democracy, and was ordered byVladimir V. Putinbecause he has a personal beef against me.

Putin publicly blamed me for the outpouring of outrage by his own people, and that is the direct line between what he said back then and what he did in this election, Clinton said in speech to a group ofdonors referencing charges she made that the Russian President rigged theparliamentary elections in his country in 2011.

Vladimir Putin himself directed the covert cyberattacks against our electoral system, against our democracy, apparently because he has a personal beef against me, she said.

4.FBI DirectorJames Comey

During a post-election conference call with Clinton surrogates,Clinton campaign chairmanJohn Podesta referred to FBI Director James Comey as the person who we think may have cost us the election, The Hill reported.

Two weeks before Election Day,Comey wrote a letter to Congress informing lawmakers of the discovery of a new batch of emails (found on Weiners computer), related to the investigation of Clintons use of a private email server while she was Secretary of State.

Two days before the election, Comey announcedthe FBI found no new information in the emails. But by then, Clintons camp believes the damage to their campaign had already been done.

5. Millennials

Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook mentioned young voters as one of the reasons for Clintons loss.

During anelection postmortem event at Harvard, Mook placed blame on young peoplewho were voting for third-party candidates as one of the reasons Clinton loss.

6.Racism

During the same post-election session at Harvard,Clinton communications director Jennifer Palmieri blamed Breitbart News and its former executive chairman turned Trump campaign CEO Stephen K. Bannon for Clintons loss.

If providing a platform for white supremacists makes me a brilliant tactician, I am proud to have lost, Palmieri said. I would rather lose than win the way you guys did.

7.White women who voted for Trump

Clinton campaign celebrity surrogate Lena Dunhamscornedself-hating white women who voted for Donald Trump, and blamed them for her candidates defeat.

Its painful to know that white women, so unable to see the unity of female identity, so unable to look past their violent privilege, and so inoculated with hate for themselves, showed up to the polls for him, too, Dunham wrote in an essay for herLenny Letter blogpublished days after the election.

8. Electoral college

During his final press briefing of the year, President Obama blamed the Electoral College for Hillary Clintons election loss.

The Electoral College, Obama said, is one of the structures in our political system as envisioned by the Founders that sometimes are going to disadvantage Democrats.

The Electoral College is a vestige, its a carryover from an earlier vision of how our federal government was going to work that put a lot of premium on states, he added.

9.VoterSuppression

Democratic National ChairDonna Brazile blamed brand new voting restrictions put in place to depress votes in many swing states.

In many swing states, voter suppression succeeded in its ultimate, if unstated goal: diluting democracy through disfranchisement, Brazile wrote weeks after the election.

FollowJerome Hudsonon Twitter@jeromeehudson

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