It is possible to believe all of the following simultaneously:
1. Hillary Clinton was a bad candidate and ran a misguided campaign. Believing this does not automatically make one anti-women or anti-feminist.
2. Despite the campaign missteps, Clinton likely would have won had James Comey not intervened. His announcement in the campaign’s waning moments likely altered the race just enough to swing it to Trump, given that Clinton lost three states by less than 100,000 votes total. Had she won those — all won by Barack Obama — she would be president.
3. Third-party helped elect Trump. Those voters had a right to back Jill Stein or Gary Johnson, but were foolish to do so — in first-past-the-post elections, every vote not cast for a major party candidate can be viewed as a vote against that candidate.
4. That said, the right to vote third party — or not vote at all — is just as sacrosanct as the right to vote for the lesser of two bad options.
5. As a leftist — a self-described socialist who is probably to the left of Bernie Sanders — Clinton was a lesser a evil. She was the candidate of the establishment and the corporate order in charge of our economy, but was still our best option for the White House.
6. It’s time to move on from discussing Hillary Clinton and focus on the actual tasks at hand.
7. An independent inquiry into Russian interference in the election is warranted.
8. There will be no impeachment of Donald J. Trump, regardless of what the investigations reveal. Republicans control both houses of Congress and they are not going there.
9. Impeachment may not be politically wise for the left, because it would lead to a Mike Pence presidency, which would strengthen the radical Christian right and allow for a more functional conservative deconstruction of government. The only thing stopping that now is Trump’s abject incompetence.
10. The left should let the investigation run its course and focus on mobilizing a real movement. As I said, the investigation is important, but people power is needed to prevent further damage to the environment, social safety net, labor, women’s, minority and immigrant rights, and so on.
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Hank Kalet 
I was totally disgusted with the \”ideologically pure liberals/progressives\” who refused to vote for Hillary. These hyper lefties always would say that a vote for the lesser evil is still evil. Oh, BALONEY! They voted 3rd party, Jill Stein or whatever. Gary Johnson (What's Aleppo?) was/is a total joke and subscribes to all the libertarian toxic gibberish. Stein had as much chance of winning as I would have had. For me, the SCOTUS and the other judicial positions were of paramount importance. Now the SCOTUS and the lower courts will go far right wing for decades. And yet Chris Hedges and Cornel West (for whom I have a lot of respect) refused to vote for the neoliberal, Hillary. So now we have a far right wing tool/idiot in the White House. Whoopee. I pray he doesn't get us into a major war. He's already done enough damage. I voted for Bernie first and then for Hillary to block the far worse alternative, Trump.