DGS49
Diamond Member
We have failed American workers — that is why Trump won
This linked story, written by a college professor, illustrates the total failure by Leftists to understand the Trump Phenomenon. They look at the "David Duke," and "NASCAR" voters, and conclude that some combination of bigots and idiots comprised the Trump coalition, and brought him to victory.
Ignore for the moment the fact that Trump won the election. Clearly, the election could have gone either way. Any number of minor factors, occurring at exactly the right time before election day, could have resulted in a Clinton victory; it was just that close.
But there were a cornucopia of reasons to vote for Trump or, if you prefer, to vote against Hillary Clinton, and it is vacuous to believe that "all" or even most of Trump's voters were either strident bigots, or mill workers who were pissed off about losing their jobs to "Chinamen."
(a) On the abortion issue alone, Clinton lost millions of votes. Her views on abortion were (are) literally as extreme as it is possible to be. She supported abortion up to and including the moment of live birth, which puts her at the outer left fringe of the figurative Bell Curve on this issue. Few pro-life voters would dirty their hands by voting for her, on this issue alone.
(b) She is literally anti-law and anti-Constitution. She favored IGNORING U.S. immigration laws in favor of illegals - claiming often that they have some sort of a RIGHT to be in this country, and she loudly defended judges and justices who demonstrably ignore the Constitution when confronted with politically-charged cases.
(c) For those of us who longed for someone with even a bit of Real World experience, Trump represented the ONLY chance we might ever have of electing someone who is not a total political hack - someone who has actually earned a living in the real world that most of us have to navigate day after day.
(d) Immigration is a real, litmus test issue for a lot of people WHO ARE NOT RACISTS, BIGOTS, or ANTI-IMMIGRANT. It is galling to the point of anger to see politician after politician who tell us that we are EVIL if we support the real enforcement of EXISTING IMMIGRATION LAWS.
I personally hold a doctorate (JD), and vote in a community where the average household has 2+ college degrees, and when I went to the polls on Election Day, "we" (men and women, working and retired) were vocally and enthusiastically casting our votes for DJT, while fully expecting to wake up on Wednesday morning confronted by the specter of "President Elect Clinton."
Not once since election day have I seen a single article where any Democrat partisan even acknowledged the possibility that people like me voted for Donald Trump. And yet we did...massively, as any poll of suburban areas will attest. As far as they are concerned, Trump was elected by uneducated, angry, lower-middle class white bigots.
And as for the present time, I'm telling you with absolute certainty on my part, this campaign they are waging now to de-legitimize, delay, thwart, and even criminalize the Trump Administration is antagonizing a lot more people than it is attracting. If this is how they expect to prevail in November 2018, bring it on.
They just don't get it.
This linked story, written by a college professor, illustrates the total failure by Leftists to understand the Trump Phenomenon. They look at the "David Duke," and "NASCAR" voters, and conclude that some combination of bigots and idiots comprised the Trump coalition, and brought him to victory.
Ignore for the moment the fact that Trump won the election. Clearly, the election could have gone either way. Any number of minor factors, occurring at exactly the right time before election day, could have resulted in a Clinton victory; it was just that close.
But there were a cornucopia of reasons to vote for Trump or, if you prefer, to vote against Hillary Clinton, and it is vacuous to believe that "all" or even most of Trump's voters were either strident bigots, or mill workers who were pissed off about losing their jobs to "Chinamen."
(a) On the abortion issue alone, Clinton lost millions of votes. Her views on abortion were (are) literally as extreme as it is possible to be. She supported abortion up to and including the moment of live birth, which puts her at the outer left fringe of the figurative Bell Curve on this issue. Few pro-life voters would dirty their hands by voting for her, on this issue alone.
(b) She is literally anti-law and anti-Constitution. She favored IGNORING U.S. immigration laws in favor of illegals - claiming often that they have some sort of a RIGHT to be in this country, and she loudly defended judges and justices who demonstrably ignore the Constitution when confronted with politically-charged cases.
(c) For those of us who longed for someone with even a bit of Real World experience, Trump represented the ONLY chance we might ever have of electing someone who is not a total political hack - someone who has actually earned a living in the real world that most of us have to navigate day after day.
(d) Immigration is a real, litmus test issue for a lot of people WHO ARE NOT RACISTS, BIGOTS, or ANTI-IMMIGRANT. It is galling to the point of anger to see politician after politician who tell us that we are EVIL if we support the real enforcement of EXISTING IMMIGRATION LAWS.
I personally hold a doctorate (JD), and vote in a community where the average household has 2+ college degrees, and when I went to the polls on Election Day, "we" (men and women, working and retired) were vocally and enthusiastically casting our votes for DJT, while fully expecting to wake up on Wednesday morning confronted by the specter of "President Elect Clinton."
Not once since election day have I seen a single article where any Democrat partisan even acknowledged the possibility that people like me voted for Donald Trump. And yet we did...massively, as any poll of suburban areas will attest. As far as they are concerned, Trump was elected by uneducated, angry, lower-middle class white bigots.
And as for the present time, I'm telling you with absolute certainty on my part, this campaign they are waging now to de-legitimize, delay, thwart, and even criminalize the Trump Administration is antagonizing a lot more people than it is attracting. If this is how they expect to prevail in November 2018, bring it on.
They just don't get it.
