http://www.salon.com/2009/09/09/healthcare_31/Yes, it was 2009 and she was warning about 2012. Obama's personal qualities and Romney's lackluster campaign saved them that year.
But, as evidenced by this year's election, the underlying problems remained. As illustrated by this paragraph:
Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers (one reason for the hypocritical absence of tort reform in the healthcare bills). Weirdly, given their worship of highly individualistic, secularized self-actualization, such professionals are as a whole amazingly credulous these days about big-government solutions to every social problem. They see no danger in expanding government authority and intrusive, wasteful bureaucracy. This is, I submit, a stunning turn away from the anti-authority and anti-establishment principles of authentic 1960s leftism.
She nailed the exact problem the Democrats faced this year. In fact, they specifically rejected reaching out to "ordinary Americans":
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/10/us/politics/hillary-clinton-campaign.html?_r=0Though she would never have won this demographic [working class whites], her husband insisted that her campaign aides do more to try to cut into Mr. Trump’s support with these voters. They declined, reasoning that she was better off targeting college-educated suburban voters by hitting Mr. Trump on his temperament.
It's not as though the Democrats were unaware they were losing the common man. They made a conscious decision to ignore him.
And, of course, I'm willing to predict the solution will be doubling down on identity politics.