Mateo D
Mateo D
Aug 25, 2017 · 2 min read

Understood, and not to be flippant about it, but once again, since when does life ever give us ‘perfect choices’… in jobs, partners, locales, housing, anything?!! And since when did we start expecting the Mother Teresas of the world to be into politics, when even FDR was a seasoned blue blood politico from a very wealthy family.

In fact all the data ‘sez that Trump didn’t win because of popular support (heck, he obviously didn’t even win the popular vote). Instead he won simply because not enuff Dem voters felt sufficiently ‘motivated’ to get off theirs azzes to even vote to begin with?!

So even if everything you point out is completely true, it’s still just a re-telling of their “excuses”, aka, the old “both sides are the same” argument. And at this point, if anyone still really believes that, then there ain’t much else to say… no matter how ‘imperfect’ they feel their ‘choices’ were (or will continue to be).

The Non-Voters Who Decided The Election: Trump Won Because Of Lower Democratic Turnout

An astonishing spectacle of the election aftermath is the false account of why Trump won. The accepted wisdom is that Trump succeeded in awakening a popular movement of anger and frustration among white, blue-collar, less educated, mostly male, voters, particularly in non-urban areas. Trump promised them jobs, safe borders, and dignity, and they responded by turning out in masses at his pre-election rallies and eventually at the ballots, carrying him to victory.

This story is mostly wrong. Trump did not win because he was more attractive to this base of white voters. He won because Hillary Clinton was less attractive to the traditional Democratic base of urban, minorities, and more educated voters.

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