Donald Trump Won Because Republicans Elected him.

Trump’s rise isn’t about racism it is just part of an 8-year trend that has seen 1,000 Democrats kicked out of public office since 2008.

Publius Americanus
Les Deplorables
Published in
1 min readNov 13, 2016

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The reality is that Donald Trump was elected by Republican voters — over 90% of the base voted for him. He was able to get more African-American, Hispanic, and female votes than the last Republican candidate for president (Romney). The truth is hard to accept, but it doesn’t make it any less true. There wasn’t some racist whitelash that brought Trump into power — the longer it takes for the Democrats to realize that the longer you’ll be out of power. The American people have been kicking Democrats out of office at every level of government since 2008 — more than 1000 liberal Democrats have lost their jobs. This chart is really instructive:

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