Hillary Clinton will bring her book tour to Denver on Dec. 11. Tickets have already sold out. Unfortunately for her fans, Clinton’s long explanation of the 2016 election loss is focused on the wrong moment and wrong place to either identify the fundamental reasons she lost or to do much good for the Democratic Party’s need to re-position for 2020.

The question is not what happened in the last few days with Mr. Comey’s inexplicably poor judgement or the final 77,000 votes she lost by in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. Rather, the question is how did Donald Trump collect 63 million votes after a majority of the public said he was unfit for office? How was she crushed in Ohio and Iowa, and how did she lose North Carolina and Florida – all states that Barack Obama and Democrats had won? “Change” has been judged the main force driving the Trump vote. The key to understanding the election, especially for Democrats, is to understand “change from what?”

Reasons behind voters’ desire for change:

Clinton, of course, has enough baggage from a lifetime in politics and a personality that puts many people off to explain a significant portion of the public’s willingness to vote for someone they thought unfit. But, it was desire for change from Washington and its political establishment that was the prime mover of public opinion. Throughout eight years, the Democratic Party created their logical opponent, a candidate who spoke in politically incorrect language to the white working class about freeing the economy from burdensome oversight. “What Happened” focuses on the end of the campaign and misses the more important story about change.