In truth, people from every walk of life voted for him and that is exactly what is so depressing.
Is it really anymore surprising that a Muslim woman voted for Trump? I mean, we know morons come in all shapes and sizes
What you both say is true but at the risk of repeating myself from CEP, the following is the bigger picture.
Of the 250 counties with the most white people, Trump won 249 of them.
Of the 250 counties with the most old men, Trump won 241 of them.
Obama's vote 2008 = 69.5 million, 2012 = 65.9 million
Hillary's vote 2016 = 59.8 million
That's 10 million Democrat votes lost in 8 years.
So did Trump pick up those 10 million? Did he fuck.
Republican losing vote 2008 = 59.9 million. Republican losing vote 2012 = 60.9 million.
Trump's winning vote 2016 = 59.6 million.
Trump won with less votes than his previous two losing Republican candidates.
Clinton actually won the popular vote by 200,000 (your electoral college, like our representative first past the post, is fucked). But she didn't get 10 million people out to vote that Obama did. That, plus old, white men, is where she lost. And the 10 million didn't come out to vote for her because the entire world knows she is a crook. Sanders would have walked it. Fuck your Goldman-Sachs collaborators (and ours too).
Anyone else notice the media saying "Duh, Trump may deliver his message bad (meaning embarrassingly) but the message (jobs etc) was good". Anyone wanna take a bet with me this is NEVER heard said in favour of Corbyn when its our turn?
Anyone?
Burn it down.