2016 Postmortem

I'm trying to understand it, but Trump got more of the minority vote than Romney. Clearly Trump is a terrible person, but here's the issue.

The logic I'm seeing on this board is this:

1) Trump won because white people love racism.

I don't see how this follows. There has been a sharp decline in racist views over the years and I see no reason why this should stop. Can you back this up with solid data? I don't buy it.

Then, the followup

2) Because white people love racism so much, the only way to get white people on board with the Democrats is to be more racist.

HELL NO. This logic doesn't follow first of all, and clearly no one wants that. It's also a cheap generalization and I think it's doing serious damage for people to think this way.

I think it's more like what Michael Moore said - http://www.salon.com/2016/10/26/michael-moore-people-will-vote-for-donald-trump-as-a-giant-fk-you-and-hell-win/

White people have been having a hard time lately and they're willing to blame any politician they can get their hands on. This also is anecdotal on my part, but I find it a much more likely explanation than racism being so rampant in this country that it wins elections and pulls in a huge amount of the white vote.

Hell, if it was true, it would be really, really sad for America and us Americans, and honestly I think the people of America are better than that. Call me naive if you will.