New Macbook Pro will not let me login

I have a fairly new Macbook Pro.  When I turn it on, the Apple screen comes up, then the user icons.  I can move the cursor just fine, but when I try to click on my user icon, the computer doesn't respond when I click on the icon.  This is an intermittent problem, and has just started happening in the past two weeks.  I have to shut the computer down by holding the on/off switch down, then restart, hoping it will work.
I took it to the Apple Store Genius bar and they ran a diagnostic on it last weekend.  Clean as a whistle, and of course, it worked just fine there.
Any suggestions or ideas about what could be wrong?  I have Bootcamp and can access Windows on it, no problem.  This seems to be an iOS problem.

Tapping to click is not the default behavior of the trackpad, and doesn't work in the login screen or in Recovery. You have to physically click the trackpad button by depressing it.

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