No Those Working Class White People Are Not All Racists Bigots ‚they Elected Obama Twice.…

Democrats can convince themselves that FBI Director Comey’s letter was the cause of their defeat or they can look at the newly drawn Donald Trump political map and see quite clearly where they fell down.

Rules Which Disqualified Previous Presidential Candidates Out The Door….

Like many peo­ple, I too am dis­ap­point­ed with the result of the elec­tions, yet I do not see the elec­tion of Donald Trump to the Presidency quite the same way oth­ers are react­ing to his his­toric win.
When the final votes are count­ed it may very well show that more peo­ple vot­ed for Hillary Clinton than vot­ed for Donald Trump. Even if she ends up los­ing the pop­u­lar vote by a small mar­gin it is impor­tant to look at the way Donald Trump carved out a path to 270 elec­toral votes and beyond when lit­er­al­ly all of the polling showed him hav­ing next to no path to secur­ing an elec­toral victory.

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JOBS AND SECURITY

We can’t all look at the peo­ple who vot­ed for Trump in Pennsylvanian, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota and say these are all racist peo­ple who decid­ed to sim­ply elect a racist can­di­date to the pres­i­den­cy with­out appear­ing silly.
These very same peo­ple elect­ed a black man they had hard­ly heard of to the very same job, not once but twice.
It was­n’t like these were sim­ply repub­li­can vot­ers who had abstained from vot­ing in the last two cycles in which Obama won.
In coun­ty after coun­ty Obama car­ried in 2008 and in 2012 with­in these states, vot­ers decid­ed­ly vot­ed for Donald Trump for President over Hillary Clinton.

Amidst the inces­sant chat­ter about strat­e­gy and paths to 270 elec­toral votes, or lack there­of, Trump’s sur­ro­gates point­ed to their can­di­date’s mes­sage about bad trade deals, the fact that they were ner­vous about glob­al­iza­tion and what that has meant to the rust belt.
Many of those peo­ple saw their jobs dis­ap­pear over­seas as a result of glob­al­iza­tion. When Trump talks about build­ing a wall to keep immi­grants out that res­onate with them. Even though for the most part immi­grants com­ing into the United States may not actu­al­ly be tak­ing jobs from this cat­e­go­ry of peo­ple, they are still offend­ed that jobs they believe should have been here, were shipped to peo­ple like those peo­ple over­seas.[sic]
So even though the United States has had lit­er­al­ly the most gen­er­ous immi­gra­tion pol­i­cy of any nation for decades, these vot­ers now saw immi­gra­tion in the con­text of what is caus­ing the prob­lems and anx­i­eties they are expe­ri­enc­ing in their lives at the moment.

Guess what, Donald Trump under­stood all of those anx­i­eties, fears, and con­cerns. He ran a cam­paign that spoke to those concerns.
That he was coarse, crass, craven, and despi­ca­ble did not mat­ter to them. They felt that once he was elect­ed he would have peo­ple around him to get the job done. What they found in Donald Trump was some­one who under­stood that they did not need to have grad­u­ate degrees. They want­ed a can­di­date who under­stood that they need­ed jobs.
Yes, these white work­ing-class peo­ple do not care about col­lege degrees they want­ed to have good-pay­ing fac­to­ry jobs, min­ing jobs, jobs in the ener­gy busi­ness. Jobs which they could get dirty doing, jobs which allows them to send their chil­dren to schools so they may earn degrees and be all they can be.
The age of these peo­ple tells the whole sto­ry, old­er, non-col­lege-edu­cat­ed work­ing people.
Boots, jeans plaid shirts, and hat they want­ed to con­tin­ue their lives, dri­ving around in their old rugged pick­up trucks doing what they have always done, mak­ing a living.
No, they are not all racist, big­ot­ed peo­ple. That is easy to say, these very same peo­ple elect­ed Barack Obama, not once but twice.
These are the peo­ple who came out to vote. These are the peo­ple who turned polling on its head today.
They did not want to tell any­one they were vot­ing for Trump for fear they would be labeled big­ot­ed racists.
They spoke with their votes.

President Barack Obama will leave office with an approval rat­ing at unprece­dent­ed lev­els for a two-term pres­i­dent. He is extreme­ly pop­u­lar, the econ­o­my has come roar­ing back from the brink of col­lapse. The auto indus­try has nev­er been stronger, thanks to his lead­er­ship. The stock mar­kets are at unprece­dent­ed lev­els. The hous­ing mar­kets have improved marked­ly to the point there are hous­ing short­ages in many states. The nation has had it’s longest peri­od of job growth since the sec­ond world war, over 15 mil­lion jobs cre­at­ed. Over 20 mil­lion more peo­ple have access to health insurance.
The pres­i­den­t’s list of accom­plish­ments is long and impressive.
The Presidency was Hillary Clinton’s to lose.
And lose it she did!
The rest of the coun­try sees these accom­plish­ments, those real­i­ties are reflect­ed in the President’s approval rat­ings. But these peo­ple in the rough and tum­ble rust belt areas of Pennsylvanian, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, and oth­ers do not care any­thing about that.
They see an ever-increas­ing glob­al­ized world in which there are no more guar­an­tees. They are fear­ful and afraid, Trump knew he could cap­i­tal­ize on those fears.
He knew they would not care about any of his transgressions.
He said so!
He knew that his mes­sage had so much res­o­nance that it did not mat­ter that he had no expe­ri­ence politically.
Was thrice mar­ried. Filed mul­ti­ple busi­ness bank­rupt­cies. Enabled nation­al­ists, and vile racists. Refused to make pub­lic his tax returns. Had failed at numer­ous busi­ness­es. Had objec­ti­fied women. Demonized Immigrants, Muslims, Blacks Latinos, a gold-star fam­i­ly, legit­i­mate American heroes, and every­one who dis­agreed with him.

None of that mat­tered to them they want­ed to over­turn the apple cart and over­turn it they did.
That Secretary Clinton, Bill Clinton, and their legions of poll­sters and experts could have missed this is astounding.
That Secretary Clinton and her team could be unmind­ful of shoring up the blue wall that Senator and President Barack Obama had cre­at­ed is polit­i­cal incompetence.
From Secretary Clinton’s choice of a cam­paign team to tak­ing lit­er­al­ly the month of August off, valu­able time which could have been spent talk­ing to those vot­ers who had twice elect­ed Barack Obama was shock­ing to me and I wrote about that.
That she did not sit in din­ers and cof­fee shops explain­ing that after President Obama had done so much to restore the econ­o­my she would be work­ing on their issues is malpractice.
She had a tem­plate to fol­low she saw the crowds which flocked to Bernie Sanders. Don’t change what works sim­ply secure what Obama had created.
On that score, she fell short and she has no one to blame but herself.