It makes sense that Hillary Clinton would travel the country blaming sexism for her electoral defeat last year.

Losers need to cope.

What's more surprising is that former First Lady Michelle Obama and Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg would endorse this theory. What do two well-respected, lifelong Democratic activists have to gain from throwing their support behind a deeply patronizing and alienating defense of an unpopular two-time losing presidential candidate?

Asked this week whether she believed sexism played an outside role in the 2016 election, Ginsburg told CBS News' Charlie Rose, "I have no doubt that it did … that was a major, major factor."

"The more women out there doing things…Women come in all sizes and shapes. To see the entrance of women into places where they were not there before is a hopeful sign," she added.

Michelle Obama, for her part, took it a step further than Ginsburg, and argued recently that women who voted for the GOP nominee basically don't respect themselves.

"Any woman who voted against Hillary Clinton voted against their own voice," Obama said at the Inbound 2017 conference in Boston.

The former first lady added, "What does it mean for us as women that we look at those two candidates, as women, and many of us said, that guy, he's better for me, his voice is more true to me. Well, to me that just says you don't like your voice. You like the thing you're told to like."

This all comes on the heels of Clinton herself suggesting in a recent interview that white women voted against her because they were pressured to by the men in their lives.

"[Women] will be under tremendous pressure – and I'm talking principally about white women – they will be under tremendous pressure from fathers and husbands and boyfriends and male employers not to vote for 'the girl,'" Clinton said, recalling a conversation she had with Facebook's chief operating officer , Sheryl Sandberg.

One can say there are sexist Donald Trump supporters. One can also certainly say President Trump has said and done several terribly sexist things.

But what benefit is there in well-respected Democrats such as Obama and Ginsburg glossing over the many obvious failings of their 2016 candidate in favor of a narrative alleging Trump was catapulted to victory thanks to overbearing sexists and weak-willed white women?

Democrats would do well to perform an autopsy on the 2016 election. They would discover that one of the things that hurt the former secretary of state the most last year was when she referred to Trump supporters as "deplorables." As it turns out, publicly condemning entire voting blocs is bad politics.

Rather than suggest female Trump supporters are weak, or traitors to their own gender, Democrats ought to ask why these women backed the GOP nominee.

If Democrats want to start winning elections again, they're going to have to come to grips with their failures, learn from their mistakes and reform their lines.

Clinton was a dreadful candidate. Don't blame voters for noticing.