Sitting here watching CNN why Trump won hour and thinking it’s nothing but bull sh*t plain and simple. Tired of people saying “Hillary was a terrible candidate” and those people who supported Bernie Sanders who voted for Donald Trump are morons plain and simple. Trump didn’t win because of Hillary just like he didn’t win the GOP primary because of the ones he ran against Trump won because he rallied the worst in society and played down to the willful ignorance that this country is full of.
As far back as I can remember (Reagan) republicans have used dog whistles for their racism or xenophobia and relied on the irrational fear of the voters. With Reagan it was the scary gays and the African Americans but he didn’t come out and say it he beat around the bush. While almost every republican candidate hinted at things Donald came right out and put the racism, sexism and xenophobia on full display for everyone to see at it empowered and rallied those racists who had for years been in the shadows. He told easily scared people that Mexicans were a danger to their lives and would rape their children, that Muslims would kill them for no reason and that a women can’t be president and they ate it up. We saw the emergence of the “alt-right” come out of the shadows and saw the Klan hold open rallies and parades, for the 1st time in the last 60 years they had a someone who spoke their language running for president not named David Duke.
Trump knew that America as a whole isn’t that bright and easily distracted, he used the willful ignorance of many against them by always changing his positions and covering up one scandal with another. He would take both sides of every position then say “that’s not what I said” when cornered on anything and the unwashed masses that worship the ground he walks on only heard what they wanted to hear.
Sexism — yes it played a part, there are people who openly admit they would not vote for a women to be president (and a lot of them are here in Pennsylvania) and some even said they fear her “mood swings” which shows they’re not only ignorant but don’t know how 70 year old women body work.
Russia — They MAY not of hacked the election (even though they have not investigated the election machines) but they hacked peoples brains. It was a campaign like we have never seen and Donald Trump didn’t need to spend a lot of money on his campaign when he had the full force of the Russian government behind him. They posted untrue stories on social media and created bots to push those stories quickly so they spread like an STD in a brothel.
Media — this was a big one, they gave Donald Trump more positive coverage in the primary than any other candidate and they normalized him. For months Morning Joe was Morning Trump as they gave him a platform to spew his lies and hate. In the general election the media tried to fact check him but by then it was to late, he turned his true believers against them so no matter what they said it was “fake news” and all of a sudden facts became meaningless. Every time a damning Trump story broke the media would be to busy covering Wikileaks or Hillary Clinton emails and completely ignored the Russian intervention.
The final reason he won is the ignorance of the American people, as we cut education and attack the educators for our children failures we get less and less informed and are more easily swayed by con men. It’s the Fox News / Reality TV generation and unless we start focusing on education and stop raising dumb ass children the movie Idiocracy will become a documentary.
But it’s OK, blame Hillary for being a bad candidate just like her emails were more damaging than anything ever in history.