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Donald Trump Wins US Presidency (nytimes.com)
It's official: Donald Trump has won the 2016 presidential election. Slashdot reader Xenographic writes: Google's map of results is now calling the race for Donald J. Trump. This is something that Nate Silver jokingly predicted back on May 10th when he wrote "Reminder: Cubs will win the World Series and, in exchange, President Trump will be elected 8 days later." The House and Senate are also under Republican control. In other news, the Canadian immigration site has crashed under heavy load.This is how The New York Times, America's top newspaper reported the news:The surprise outcome, defying late polls that showed Hillary Clinton with a modest but persistent edge, threatened convulsions throughout the country and the world, where skeptics had watched with alarm as Mr. Trump's unvarnished overtures to disillusioned voters took hold. The triumph for Mr. Trump, 70, a real estate developer-turned-reality television star with no government experience, was a powerful rejection of the establishment forces that had assembled against him, from the world of business to government, and the consensus they had forged on everything from trade to immigration. The results amounted to a repudiation, not only of Mrs. Clinton, but of President Obama, whose legacy is suddenly imperiled. And it was a decisive demonstration of power by a largely overlooked coalition of mostly blue-collar white and working-class voters who felt that the promise of the United States had slipped their grasp amid decades of globalization and multiculturalism. Update: The New Yorker's Editor-in-Chief David Remnick, described the Election outcome as "an American tragedy." The New York Times columnist Paul Krugman said, "Trump will bring global recession." BBC has an article on how the media worldwide has described Trump's victory. The Guardian captured the thoughts of world leaders on the matter. Hillary Clinton addressed the nation this morning and told her supporters that they all should keep an open mind and give Trump the chance to lead.
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Didn't see this coming but it looks like the republicans will control all branches. It will be interesting to see what they do with that power in the upcoming years.
I expect the first priority for the Republicans now will be reversing everything done under Obama. Even the thing they agree with, they can't allow a Democrat to claim the success. I expect a health care reform repeal act to pass at some point in 2017.
Trump himself doesn't really have any policies, just powerful rhetoric, so I would expect him to just reflect the party positions on most issues. The country will march on, there will be a brief battle (which republicans will win) over at least one supreme court nominee when the Republicans insist on appointing someone who has pledged to overturn Roe given half a chance, and Trump will say something embarassing every couple of months that will need a bit of diplomatic skill from his underlings to downplay. America may become a bit of a laughing stock for a time, but it'll still carry on running. Food will be on the table, television will keep on running, and the people will grumble as usual.
Trump is less likely to start WWIII than Hillary Clinton was. Don't forget that in the debates she practically declared war on Russia.
Trump is a survivable event. Hillary would have spelled the end of the United States.
Trump may not be my first choice, but make no mistake, the right choice won tonight.
Blah blah blah. Clinton -- with all the same information that your favorite pal George W. Bush had -- voted for the Iraq war. The fact that she later decided that war was bad when it was politically convenient to do so and was never questioned once by the toadies in the press about here hypocrisy doesn't change the facts.
As secretary of state she personally instigated the disastrous destabilization of multiple secular governments in the middle east to appease the jihadi Muslim Brotherhood.
There was one proven war monger on that stage, and it wasn't Turmp.
AntiFA: An abbreviation for Anti First Amendment.
I'm old enough to remember when they wanted to face Reagan. I guess you need to be careful what you wish for.
Well, at least we (the UK) are no longer the biggest clowns in the west.
SJW n. One who posts facts.
"Coward" is an Islamic surname? Who knew?!
But seriously. If I enter any other non-Western country with a Christian surname and am treated as a second class citizen, it is expected. I am the guest, I am expected to abide by the rules, the customs, the laws, the norms. I cannot own land in Japan, If I am a woman I cannot vote in Saudi Arabia. Yet everyone expects that the West change their ways to accommodate them when they enter. And when there is pushback against this expectation, the response is accusations of racism and xenophobia.
If the West is so great that everyone wants to enter, why does everyone want to change it so radically?
There never have been more old people. There you have it.
Same shit here in Germany, only worse - we basically have a gerontocracy.
"It's such a fine line between stupid and clever" -- David St. Hubbins, Spinal Tap
From the Washington Post:
I’m no fan of Peter Thiel, the billionaire who put Gawker out of business by bankrolling a lawsuit by Hulk Hogan, the professional wrestler. In fact, I find him appalling.
But when he spoke recently at the National Press Club, he said something that struck me as quite perceptive about Donald Trump.
“The media is always taking Trump literally. It never takes him seriously, but it always takes him literally,” Thiel said. Journalists wanted to know exactly how he would deport that many undocumented immigrants, or exactly how Trump would rid the world of ISIS. We wanted details.
But a lot of voters think the opposite way: They take Trump seriously but not literally.
They realize, Thiel said, that Trump doesn’t really plan to build a wall. “What they hear is, ‘We’re going to have a saner, more sensible immigration policy.’ ”
Trump, quite apparently, captured the anger that Americans were feeling about issues such as trade and immigration.
Also, as someone who is not a Trump supporter, I thought at least that his acceptance speech was quite good.
Yeah Reagan presided over an economic boom. Dump is inheriting a tepid one. If I was a historian the results would be fascinating. However, I will be living it.
The parallels with the rise of Nazism in the 1930s are quite disturbing. Trump wants to deport 11 million people, persecute Muslims, force other countries to respect and build walls for America, and all on the back of a populist campaign of lies and blame.
The Republicans control both houses, the presidency and will get to appoint an ultra conservative to the Supreme Court. Trump won by appealing particularly to white males, a group that thinks it is repressed and under attack when in fact it has all the power and is now persecuting everyone else. The President has admitted sexually assaulting women, and is being sued for the Trump University scam, used cheap immigrant labour to build his empire and wants to put his political rival in jail.
The world is turning to shit again. I honestly thought this couldn't happen, that we had learned from the 1930s and would never allow the same mistakes to be made, but it has happened.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
She was SUPPOSED to win in a runaway landslide.
Against Donald Trump... you know, the guy who has been mocked and demonized by the media for over a year? The guy who was supposed to be a joke of a candidate?
Even with the corpses of three endangered white rhinos dumped onto her side of the scale she LOST.
AntiFA: An abbreviation for Anti First Amendment.
for ignoring the Middle Class. They focused on the very rich and the very poor. Those two groups got taken care of. The rich got tax breaks, cheap labor and cheap money (super low interest rates, etc) and the poor got the Medicare expansion, extended unemployment and a bit of stimulus. The middle class got fuck all.
Joe Biden talked about this (I wish he'd run, he'da crushed Trump). Sure, Trump isn't going to do anything either, but he said he would, which is more than I heard from Hilary...
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LOL, the Brexit result practically foreshadowed the US election.
Indeed yes. The candidates prepared to tell the nastiest, most egregious lies won in both cases.
SJW n. One who posts facts.
Yeah. We're "Stupider" than the Islamic countries who hang homosexuals and stone women for being raped. You know, you can take this Trump victory as an indictment against your kind of stupid, anti-American rhetoric. Fuck you.
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1. Obama had VASTLY more power - he had super majorities in both the House and Senate, which let him do ANYTHING he wanted in his 1st almost 2 years in office without a single Republican vote in congress and with the Republicans not even able to mount a fillibuster in the Senate (incidentally, while the Dems used that power for that nearly trillion dollar stimulus bill and the auto take-over and bank bailouts and Obamacare, they did NOT use it for amnesty or or fixing the inner cities or anything else that would then deprive them of future election arguments to their ethic voter groups). Trump has the congress only marginally - many in Republicans congress are RINOS and "never trumpers" - there WERE no "never Obamas" among the Democrats in congress.
2. I repeatedly warned liberals on this site that all that cheering they did as Obama did tons of crap "with a pen and his phone" was setting precedents that any future Republican president could use. No Trump has license to run just as rough-shod over every stinking liberal thing he chooses using those very same precedents they and Obama established. THAT was why "ends justify the means" ethics was always a bad idea. If Trump uses that power now to trash every damn thing you like, you have nobody but yourselves to blame. As a right-winger, I personally hope that conservatives in his circles will urge Trump to show more restraint in this regard and not be the dirtbag Obama has been. I do not want my president doing that crap whether he's a Republican OR a Democrat.
3. This may be the one chance in our lifetimes to see a non-government person go into Washington and upend all the corruption and bureaucracy. A business guy will be able to bring a real-world perspective to things government has been doing and look at lots of stuff and ask the unthinkable questions: "should government be doing THAT?" and "Is that the smartest and most-efficient way to do THAT?" and "Are you an actual expert, or were were you just the one who contributed the most money to some politician?"
I am very cautiously optimistic that DC and the media will be so far in shock that the inertia of big corrupt government, and NYC media, and talking-head experts and campaign consultants will all have to do a little introspection. The elites need to get out of their bubbles and visit and get to know the rest of America.
Big loser of the night: Goldman Sachs (followed by the rest of the Wall Street bankers and globalist multinational corps).
Those who remember history are doomed to repeatedly fail at teaching people a goddamn thing.
Eat the rich.
* Violence and hate crime against minorities will rise sharply over the next ~6 months.
Eat the rich.
I'd love to blame this on the DNC establishment, but Clinton always had the popular vote amongst Democrats. Sanders was simply never going to win the primary, and to be honest, it's highly questionable he'd have won against Trump despite the opinion polls supposedly making that claim.
Neither should have been the party's nominee, not an unpopular neo-con who had been the target of smear campaigns for 25 years, and not a populist with left wing views similar to an ideology that has been the target of a smear campaign in the US for over a century.
Biden would have wiped the floor with Trump. I'd like to think Warren would have done too. Sanders? Hell no. Once the sheen had faded and Sanders had started to see what a real negative campaign looks like, Trump wouldn't have looked back.
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
I voted for Jill Stein. I voted for her in 2012 as well. I voted for Obama in 2008, and for George Bush in 2000 and 2004. I voted for Ross Perot in 1992, after voting for George HW Bush in 1998, as my first election. I liked Reagan, and still do, and think many people forget his achievements.
With all that, I think the main news organizations and pollsters didn't account for the numbers of people who completely despised the hypocrisy and corruption of Hillary Clinton, the Clinton Foundation, the DNC and its collaboration with the media for the debates. Basically, all the things that the Wikileaks emails brought to life for the last holdouts supporters added to the early block of 'Never-Hillary' voters.
It doesn't matter if you think those issues don't matter, or if you think they are false issues. For many people, they were the deciding issues. And it also doesn't matter if Russia was part of it or not. If your enemy shows you a photo of your wife cheating, it is still a photo of your wife cheating. Your enemy's intention is immaterial in consideration of whether your wife actually cheated.
If you think I voted for Trump because of this post, you're wrong. I voted for Dr. Jill Stein of the Green Party. Again.
After Brexit, racist and xenophobic attacks went up dramatically. I've had them myself, after more than a decade of nothing. The US will be the same, with animosity towards immigrants, Muslims and anyone else Trump doesn't like. People will be expecting them to be deported or locked up, and will treat them as the sub-human animals that Trump portrays them as.
There is going to be a lot of social upheaval, and that's before they get around to trying to cancel gay people's marriages and take the vote away from even more black people. Democracy has failed, the checks and balances (the two houses, the supreme court) are all controlled by the Republicans with a madman in charge.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
I don't know where the extra Republican votes came from.
It's called the Bradley effect people are always reluctant to admit to pollsters that they are willing to vote for a corrupt and openly racist candidate.
From people sick to death of a corrupt, lying Clinton and the totally transparent corruption of the DNC and all of the media machinery that was trying to shove her down everyone's throats. If you still think this was about "Russian hacking" or any other sort of external influence, you're exactly the sort of out-of-touch person that probably thought Clinton was entitled to more of the sort of power she's been so eager to abuse and enrich herself with over the years.
If you think that anybody can become a realestate tycoon in New York and meddle in the casino business without being corrupt perhaps you'd be interested in this bridge I have for sale. Voting for Donald Trump because you think he's less corrupt than Hillary Clinton is about the best joke I've heard in a long time.
Jesus fucking Christ. I didn't want this (as my posting record will certainly show), but there is that smug desire to wag fingers and say I told you, isn't there?
The moment Brexit happened, I strongly suspected Trump was headed for the White House. Two completely unrelated things, you say? Not at all. The point is this: Project Fear has run its course. If you tell people "Oh No, if you don't vote for the status quo, warts and all, things will get so so bad!", they will be inclined to tell you to go fuck yourself up an ass with a cactus. And if the Brits were willing to do that, for fuck's sake, Americans surely were as well.
Should I say it? Does it need to be said? Bernie could have won, easily. Probably a dozen others could've done the same. I personally think Biden could've easily won because the man is not a phony. Elizabeth Warren might have easily won too; I'm not sure. For millennia, people haven been bitching thatpoliticians are phony and yet it's somehow impossible to elect someone who isn't phony. Guess what? It's not impossible. Now, in this case I'm pretty sure people settled on a rank phony-ness of a much different sort, a non-standard phonyness over the standard one, but...
But Jesus fucking Christ, all of this dumb shit about racism and sexism... all of these red herrings that NO ONE on the fence gave a crap about after the man gave you a mountain of potent ammunition to use against him. Scream and scream and scream hysterically at us if we don't agree he's "orange Hitler". No, no he's not Hitler or a racist, obviously fucking not. He's an airhead who barely pays attention to what he's even saying, a sycophant, a man who was a registered Democrat not that long ago, someone who was able to broach a few important topics that no one else was willing to broach, even if he make a complete mess if it every time he tried to talk sense. Just broaching the topic was enough.
Instead of a curse, I'll try to end with a blessing:
May the old guard of the Republicans finally disintegrate entirely, may the evangelicals slowly grow quiet and chasten with the realization that genitalia-centered regulation and shaming is no longer going to be a priority in this country, may the alt-right toss out its more vile elements and turn into something that's actually worth listening to now and then, and may the left in this country grow the fuck up and realize that merely being less anti-intellectual and more "moderate" (especially compared to the left in other Western democracies) is not enough.
This wasn't the way to do it; definitely wasn't the smart way to do it, and I risk spraining my neck from shaking my head but at the same time... alone in the kitchen, coming in for a quick snack but then finding myself pacing absentmindedly and staring at the ceiling... I have to admit cracking a smile or three. Moronic and foot-shooting as this whole thing has been, it does give me a little bit of hope. If reasonableness fails against cynicism, I guess stupidity and bombast can sometimes carry the day, for whatever Pyrrhic victory that's worth.
Now let's just hope we can all survive the next four years.
he has a very real agenda and it was made clear early on that he'd be running the show behind the scenes, not Trump.
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I have historian friends who tell me something along the lines of: "We're overdue. Civilizations forget the past, and believe themselves better than their ancestors. They believe the nations that spawned Plato, Confucious and Beethoven were primitive compared to now. They think what has happened before so many times is now behind us. Thus they do not listen to the warnings. They dont believe it can happen to the most modern and advanced culture the world has ever seen. Still, it happens. They are shocked when it does. They ask 'How could it happen here, in these modern times? Surely we are more sophisticated than those brutes we heard about from history?' They all believed that. The Romans, the Byzantine, the Chinese dynasties and the Victorians. They all believed that, and they were wrong."
Maine voters just enacted ranked choice voting (= instant runoff voting) for every office except president. It was a ballot initiative; Question 5. I'm not sure why they didn't do it for president. Since they manage the scope of the vote counting for president by district to assign electors, they could just run the ranking algorithm within each district's group of votes.
My predictions:
Home politics
- say goodbye to collective medical insurance
- prepare for a radical right-wing supreme justice
- prepare for a tax system that's even more favourable for the rich, expect inequality in income net worth to increase sharply
- expect tax rises on the middle class to fill budgetary holes
- prepare for really stupid (and non-functional) "trickle down" economic policies
- prepare for an increase in racism and gender discrimination in society
- expect the education system to get worse
- expect environmental protection laws and oversight to be gutted
Foreign policy
- prepare for disastrously stupid and venal politics in Iraq and Syria, including the targeting of innocent civilians to get one or two terrorists
- prepare for extended US military commitment in Iraq, Syria
- prepare for major loss of US influence, partners, and significance in Asia
- prepare for disastrous policy with respect to China, probably leading to a trade war the US is going to lose, perhaps the start of a major military conflict in Asia
- prepare to lose big in geopolitical manoeuvring against a wily and resurgent Russia due to terminally stupid policies
Did I miss anything? Probably. I have total confidence in President Trump to exceed expectations on the above list.
Yup. Bernie could have won against Trump. Biden could have won against Trump (although I understand the issue there is he didn't really want to run.) I even think Elizabeth Warren could have won against Trump.
Virtualy any serious (or indeed unserious) person willing to project a a sensible anti-establishment persona, and not say the kind stupid horseshirt Trump has said, and also not be trailing decades of sordid little establishment-class skeletons like Hillary... I tend to believe any of those people could have beaten Trump. We wanted a person in charge for a change; the democratic establishment instead gave us a lizard. One of the more reptilian lizards to saunter by in a while, really.
And so people voted for the blabbering airhead instead of the lizard. People of or for the left: please learn your lesson. Reform politics. Create an "alt-left"... or just continue down your current path, keep making your token snide remarks and behold as the right destroys everything.
They knew *exactly* what to expect with Hillary, which was "business as usual".
And that is exactly why I blame the Democrats for Trump.
And yet, all the people voting for Donald Trump, in order to "shake things up," also voted, overwhelmingly to put the same old congresscritters back in office.
Drain the swamp, but leave my alligator alone!
Are you seriouisly thinkling that the Americans will be able to change the political system? I see it here and elsewhere time and time again how people who lived 200+ years ago get quoted as to why things NOW should be a certain way.
Americans are hesitant to change to the Metric system. They are even hesitant to adapt a fully functioning verification system with credit and debit cards (Swipe+Pin) and you think they are going to look at other countries for their political system?
I can imagine that proposing a change would be seen as so un-American it will need a new word, because terrorist or communist will not cover the hate for you.
So no, there will be no change. What will be needed is a revolution (that can happen peaceful) and that will only happen if enough people know that they have nothing to say. That will happen when people will get fed up how companies determine what happens. That will happen when enough people go hungry or homeless or in other ways miserable.
Perhaps then people will not believe the words of people who are dead 200+ years and start their own change of government, just like those dead people 200+ years did.
And the real hunger will come when the US is hollowed out from the inside. Things will get worse before they get better.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
The seeds of the republic's destruction were sown in the 1910s by the Progressives: the States were expelled from Congress (Seventeenth Amendment), federal income tax instated, and Federal Reserve created, leading to inflationary monetary policies that impoverish savers and create asset bubbles. Someone like Trump is an unsurprising response to decades of unchecked statism and the rise of the managerial/bureaucratic class; by definition, such a class cannot constitute anything close to a numerical majority.
The people are mad as hell and are not going to take it anymore.
Now Trump will become head of the federal leviathan the Progressives created and Republicans failed to control. He will have unprecedented executive powers thanks to the COWARDLY failure of Congress to reign in G.W. Bush and Obama.
But I do feel some schadenfreude now that Progressives are talking about secession.
For years, I was called everything from a neo-Confederate to racist for advocating states' rights and secession (if needed) in response to the federal leviathan that spies on us, wages unconstitutional wars, and debases our currency. I was called backwards when I sounded the alarm against political and economic consolidation in D.C., about how it was always a conceit that such programs could work without destroying liberty in the process. A nation of 310+ million stretching from sea to shining sea should not be centrally managed from D.C. -- or anywhere. And now we have Donald Trump in the presidency. Great.
The REAL winners in this election? The ideas on which this republic was founded. Competitive sovereignty between the states. Limited federal government based on strict interpretation of enumerated powers. Congressional primacy (Article I > Article II). A president with less executive power. The rule of law. Separation of powers. Decentralization. Liberty.
Restore the republic, and you have less to fear from tyrants like Trump, Clinton, and the would-be Caesars who show up in 2020. This country was blessed to have one Cincinnatus in Washington, but we must always err on the side of prudence and never give into further political consolidation.
Your words don't represent the western civilisation. Your words only represent the ignorant and short-sighted ideas of someone who has never seen/done much. You might be even just repeating what others said before you. Ironically, you are likely to have been enjoying privileges during your whole life and haven't ever had the kind of problems you are afraid of. You think that everyone else wants what you have and that they don't know how to get it (or are too lazy or uneducated or poor or similar).
The reality is that your intransigent behaviour is precisely what increases the chances of your blind fears to actually materialise. Violence, hate, lack of understanding, intolerance, lack of opportunities, prejudices, short-sightedness or similar are the kind of things which provoke the appearance of what you don't want. Your just-in-case, unmotivatedly aggressive behaviour towards those different than you is likely to provoke their aggressive reactions. Do you want to feel safe, to be happy and to minimise the chances of anything bad happening to you and your beloved ones? Make an effort to understand and to be understood. Accept yourself and others and don't believe in generic magical solutions or bad guys. Remember that everyone else wants the same for themselves. The complexity of the world scares you? The world doesn't need your fear and you don't want to feel it, why keep doing it? If you cannot deal with something, just don't do it; nobody has requested your fear. Focus on your local community and the people you deal with on a daily basis. Just feeling hate or fear or frustration isn't an acceptable behaviour; not caring about what you don't want to understand would be 1000 times better. Stop thinking that what works for you, works for anyone else (or just deal with people thinking like you, if you prefer). Stop believing that everyone wants what you have (or replace fear with proudness and happiness about having a so-interesting-to-everyone-else life and fully enjoy it). Why do you think that sharing your fears will be helpful to anyone? Scared people tend to make really bad decisions. Also never forget that each single action has a reaction; better make sure that you know what you are doing before affecting others or plainly don't do anything. In summary: live and let live.
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Reagan inherited a decade of stagflation. He created the economic boom.
Are you kidding? As a classical liberal I hate SJW's even more than the right. SJW's have co-opted my Democratic party and turned a party of inclusiveness, reason, and freedom into a party of white-male hatred, "safe spaces," and exclusion. For that, I despise them way more than any Republican ever will.
But you just keep digging your heals in and embracing a more-and-more radical fringe SJW ideology, and see what happens in the next election when even more states turn red in backlash.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Now you have a populist who will bring back the minimum wage (while such a thing exists) manufacturing jobs from China (great going Peter Navarro - and if you voted for Trump but have no idea who this is, you are part of the problem), at least until automation kicks you to the curb. "Blue-collar" workers have (best case) staved away their downward decline for a few years, while destroying any hope of a transition to a decent health care system and safety nets that they'll need in the coming decades.
Donald Trump's victory is a much-needed wake up call to the elites of the USA and the wider world. Hillary Clinton remembered the affluent east and west coasts and forgot those in-between. Trump did not persuade voters; voters persuaded Trump to represent them. The orchestrated anti-Trump narrative in the media did not achieve the desired effect of promoting Clinton, who is popularly viewed as untrustworthy and corrupt.
The 'status quo' candidate representing the interests of high finance and corporations lost and the change candidate emerged victorious. The House, Senate and Presidency are all in Republican hands, thanks to the votes of people inhabiting cities and towns of the USA which have been in decline for decades due to a lethal combination of unhindered free trade, advancing technology, and outsourcing of labour. Millions of desperate people were left to drown by a disdainful elite, and would grasp any life raft offered; it was Trump who made that offer. Whether he'll follow through and actually help those left behind, only time will tell.
The U.S. election result is further evidence that the majority of the mass media lives in a self-perpetuated bubble, insulated from the harsh and grim realities ordinary people face every day. Huge frustration and discontentment in modern politics manifested in the UK with the Brexit vote to leave the European Union, and it is manifest in the U.S. Presidential election. In Bernie Sanders the Democratic Party had a more palatable populist, but preferred to nominate their Establishment candidate instead.
So they did...and so she lost.
A lot of Trump's supporters aren't going to be happy that he can't deliver on all the promises he made.
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro" -- HST
Actually, I'm pretty sympathetic to the (mostly real) grievances of Trump voters. My biggest problems with Trump are, in descending order:
- His general disdain for constitutional rights. People think it's no big deal now because they aren't the target of his disgust, but wait until the day you disagree with him.
- I think he has given license to political and racial violence.
- And I don't think for one minute his tax policy will do anything other than benefit the very wealthy at the expense of everyone else.
But hey, maybe I am completely off-base here. Maybe everything is going to be fine, and His Trumpiness will bring peace and prosperity to all Americans. If that happens, I'll vote for him in 2020. It wouldn't be the first time I switched my vote based on a president's job performance.
Between 2012 and 2015, the US population went up ~10 million. Yet the total number of ballots cast in the 2016 presidential election is about 6 million fewer than the total cast in 2012. Where did these voters go? Why didn't they vote? The margin between Trump and Clinton was around 200,000 votes nationally, or about 1/30th of the difference between 2012 and 2016.
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You say that Trump is a caricature of the worst stereotypes...aggressive, irrational, uneducated, greedy, and violently racist...
Those can be used to describe Hilary as well - including racist - and you can add the adjectives corrupt, immoral, criminal, and incompetent.
No one should be happy with this election. The two candidates put forward by their respective parties were both awful. I wasn't planning on voting; I planned on abstaining, but my wife begged me to vote. Ultimately, I voted for Trump because he can't do WORSE than Obama or Hilary. He might do a terrible job, but he can't do worse, and to my knowledge, he's not a happy criminal whose family has anyone who airs their laundry killed.
I voted third-party instead of endorsing either Trump or Clinton.