Hillary Clinton is right about why she lost . 
Hillary Clinton
And Clinton should have also known that simply running the conventional campaign playbook against Trump would never do . 
Because Trump spent more than a year crushing more than a dozen Republican primary challengers -- the vast majority of whom tried to run the very same "traditional" political campaign that Clinton did . 
-LRB- CNN -RRB- In her new memoir of the 2016 campaign , Hillary Clinton offers this analysis on why she lost : . 
Clinton consumed with Russian meddling , she writes in new book . 
Clinton should have known all of that . 
There 's another thing that Clinton should have known : That running a "traditional presidential campaign" was unlikely to work against Trump . 
It 's a lesson Clinton should have learned when she lost the Democratic presidential primary back in 2008 . 
Go all the way back to Bill Clinton -- another campaign that Hillary Clinton was intimately familiar with . 
In this race , Trump felt to them like the change candidate and Clinton felt like more of the same . 
If the definition of insanity is repeatedly doing the same thing and expecting a different result , then that 's exactly what Clinton was doing in this campaign . 
TOPSHOT - US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton makes a concession speech after being defeated by Republican president-elect Donald Trump in New York on November 9 , 2016 . 
Hillary Clinton should have known better than to think that a stack of policy papers was the way to the White House . 
The broader point here is that while Clinton 's diagnosis of why she lost is accurate , it 's not the full picture . 
But , Clinton 's analysis -- while broadly accurate -- misses -LRB- or takes for granted -RRB- a few things that should not be missed or taken for granted . 
Clinton clearly views Trump 's "heart" appeal as beneath contempt . 
Clinton won as a fresh-faced son of the South , not on any specific policies . 
-LRB- Clinton acknowledges in the book that she was never able to fully express her feelings and emotions during the campaign . -RRB- 
Defiant Clinton looks to explain loss in new memoir .
And [TGT] should have also known that simply running the conventional campaign playbook against Trump would never do . 
Because Trump spent more than a year crushing more than a dozen Republican primary challengers -- the vast majority of whom tried to run the very same "traditional" political campaign that [TGT] did . 
-LRB- CNN -RRB- In her new memoir of the 2016 campaign , [TGT] offers this analysis on why [TGT] lost : . 
[TGT] consumed with Russian meddling , [TGT] writes in new book . 
[TGT] should have known all of that . 
There 's another thing that [TGT] should have known : That running a "traditional presidential campaign" was unlikely to work against Trump . 
It 's a lesson [TGT] should have learned when [TGT] lost the Democratic presidential primary back in 2008 . 
Go all the way back to [TGT] -- another campaign that [TGT] was intimately familiar with . 
In this race , Trump felt to them like the change candidate and [TGT] felt like more of the same . 
If the definition of insanity is repeatedly doing the same thing and expecting a different result , then that 's exactly what [TGT] was doing in this campaign . 
[TGT] makes a concession speech after being defeated by Republican president-elect Donald Trump in New York on November 9 , 2016 . 
[TGT] should have known better than to think that a stack of policy papers was the way to the White House . 
The broader point here is that while [TGT] 's diagnosis of why [TGT] lost is accurate , it 's not the full picture . 
But , [TGT] 's analysis -- while broadly accurate -- misses -LRB- or takes for granted -RRB- a few things that should not be missed or taken for granted . 
[TGT] clearly views Trump 's "heart" appeal as beneath contempt . 
[TGT] won as a fresh-faced son of the South , not on any specific policies . 
-LRB- [TGT] acknowledges in the book that [TGT] was never able to fully express [TGT] feelings and emotions during the campaign . [TGT] looks to explain loss in new memoir .