2016 Postmortem

it was 100 percent cultural.

People can try or want to conflate it to being about "the economy" but end of the day the people who voted trump voted for someone who spent 1 1/2 years telling them he was going to bring jobs back to america while wearing hats he had made in China.

They voted FOR Trump for the same reasons we are revolsed by him. He is a mean spririted, selfish bully. We hate that, they love that.

Further, they voted cultural downticket. Because Rs are out and out about what they want to do - no minimum wage, privatize health care and social security. The three main things to ANY of our economic security, particularly the blue collar working class, and they voted for the people who are out and out saying they are ready to do the most extreme things to jeopardize them.

WHY - because they are openly hostile to guys who have sex with other guys, blacks, mexicans and other minorities and knock the same "liberal elitests" that they hate so much.

It was 100 percent cultural, as it has been the last 3 decades. They are willing to jeopardize THEIR financial well being because team R is going to take away the handouts to "them" as in those of color or those who live in cities. They vote R even though they are itching to do tax reform that will give massive breaks to the ultra rich and have some scheme in place to double back on everyone else because them there Rs will say they get to keep their guns that no one really wants to take in the first place.

it is 100 percent cultural, has been as long as I have been alive.