Alienating millennials: Why Clinton’s foreign policy speech was a flop

Establishment Democrats and the media are swooning over Hillary Clinton’s foreign policy speech. They believe Clinton can beat Donald Trump on foreign policy because of her experience in the Senate and as Secretary of State, and they think her hawkish views will appeal to disgruntled Republicans.

They’re wrong. This is the wrong battle for Clinton to pick, especially now.

Clinton needs to ask herself: Why have I not yet secured the Democrat nomination? The answer is deeper than Bernie Sanders’ personal appeal to the Democratic base and younger voters. It goes into major policy disagreements.

As many as half of Sanders supporters are saying they will not back Clinton in the general; that’s not because they love Sanders. It is because they despite Clinton. They despise her ties to Wall Street, her close relationships to the corrupt DNC and to Super PACs, and her hawkish views on foreign policy — she has agreed with neo-con Bill Kristol on military interventions in Middle East nation after Middle East nation, from Iraq to Syria to Egypt and Libya.

For these reasons, polls show Clinton has a massive millennial problem. She’s polling at 40 percent with voters under age 30 in the general election, a demographic President Obama won 60+ percent in both of his elections. They’re abandoning her for non-interventionist candidates like Gary Johnson, Jill Stein, and even Trump.