Quote (fender @ 20 May 2020 20:03)
the fan fiction gets more absurd the more you guys are triggered. pure projection from bigoted dimwits.
anyone who seriously suggests that trump won because hillary called his supporters 'deplorables', needs to get their head checked. no one who didn't already support him was insulted by that, you fail at basic logic. it's a flimsy excuse, that's it.
Look up the definition of "enthusiasm" and "turnout" in a dictionary.

I agree that her deplorables-comment isnt the sole factor that lost her the election, but it did reinforce her weakness with rural America. Trump was only able to pull off the win because rural, non-college whites turned out in record numbers. No campaign in recent history has put as much emphasis on virtue-signaling and was as geared toward metropolitan voters as Hillary's. In 2016, she received an energetic backlash from those voters she and her party had alienated, and the deplorables-comment is exemplary of this alienation.
Simply put, the number of Obama-Trump voters far exceeded Trump's winning margin in the pivotal battleground states, and I have a really hard time believing that someone who had voted for Obama just 4 years prior is a racist or animated primarly by white grievance. The much more plausible explanation is that the Democrat's focus on cultural liberalism and urbanites coupled with their openly displayed disdain for the values and way of life of rural voters is what pushed them over the edge and into the GOP column. The realignment we saw in 2016, the alienation between the Democratic party and rural America, had been brewing for a long time, and Hillary's deplorables-comment was one of the last few drops that caused it to boil over. It didnt do that on its own, but coupled with the kind of campaign Hillary ran, it was the straw that broke the camel's back.
This post was edited by Black XistenZ on May 20 2020 12:40pm