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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Here's some different math. Trump should not have been able to get the amount of votes he did, at all, anywhere. A candidate like him in years past would have been bulldozed by someone with a machine like Clinton's. Looking at his numbers, it is inescapable that he somehow created a movement. Digging into the numbers, you see that movement was centered around an unusually high number of white lower to middle class voters. What caused them to so galvanize? Us. We ignored them. They exacted revenge.
EvMI.
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That's story makes sense as long as you ignore all of the numbers. Trump didn't win on a wave of angry turnout. He got the typical GOP vote numbers.
ETA: also, what does ignore mean? This group doesn't want the policy help we can offer. They don't want health insurance, education, job training & relocation assistance. They want to crack down on immigrants and brown people. That's not something "we" can or should offer.
