Flogging the 2016 Corpse: An Examination of a Failure To Reexamine Clinton-Sanders

"Maybe 2016 will just never end at all. Maybe years, even decades, after this writer is dead and gone, people will still be taking to social media in a froth and looking to digitally decapitate one another over what did or didn’t happen in that election cycle. Maybe it will even go generational, a legend passed down from father to son, mother to daughter. It isn’t just that the subject never dies; it’s that the sound and fury over it never even dims. The various narratives about it have been adopted by those in various factions as a part of their very identity. The election seems to have gotten at some pretty fundamental divides among Americans, and it’s a wound far too many work very hard to keep perpetually open, a thing not only disputed on an emotional level that has proven itself immune to facts and to reason but has become virtually an emotion unto itself, so distinct we could probably even name it. We are happy. We are sad. We are 2016.

"All of that probably makes what I’m going to do here a pointless exercise, and if, after reading it, you’re inclined to sardonically chuckle or even roll your eyes at what, right after writing it, I’m about to do, go right ahead--I no doubt have it coming. But I recently came across--or, rather, had shoved in my face by some Clinton cultists who clearly thought it was a thoroughly convincing document--a 2016-themed essay that I don’t remember seeing before. I had some time on my hands and I thought I’d respond to it (which maybe buttresses that whole 'devil’s workshop' thing). It’s a 2019 article from a law professor, Anthony Gaughan, 'Was the Democratic Nomination Rigged? A Reexamination of the Clinton-Sanders Presidential Race.' In answer to his own question, Gaughan argues that it wasn’t. Or, rather, spends 50 pages ]saying it wasn’t, without making any real case for that conclusion, which his article strongly suggests was determined prior to any examination of the evidence."

So--heaven help us all--a look at Gaughan's "case":
https://jriddle.medium.com/flogging-the-2016-corpse-an-examination-of-a-failure-to-reexamine-clinton-sanders-1722626559a6