Three ways the Clinton campaign became the Trump campaign

1) Claiming The System Is Rigged

The last presidential debate was far and away the best and offered the most substantive look at the policy differences between the two candidates. Moderator Chris Wallace generally kept focused on issues more than tangents, with a few exceptions. One exception was a somewhat overwrought series of questions about whether Trump, who is always talking about rigged systems, would accept the results of the election. He said he’d wait to see how things went.

Perhaps in part because Trump performed better than Clinton, the media made major hay over this, with the headlines and non-stop cable shows touting this as a major problem.

But after FBI Director James Comey told Congress that he’d reopened the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s mishandling of classified information via a secret server, Clinton operatives began claiming, well, that the system was rigged.

Harry Reid said that Comey had violated the Hatch Act by doing his job. Clinton surrogates said that it was an attempt to “hijack” the election. Some are calling it a “coup.” New York Times columnist Paul Krugman said that “America is perilously close to a failed state.”