A member accused me of not understanding Trump and why you guys voted for him. Well I have thoughts on why he won and why he gets so much support from white men. Would love to know your thoughts. Here goes.
1. Trump is a brilliant politician
2. Dems nominated Hillary
3. Dems don't understand white men
Trump is brilliant. Plain and simple. He understands his audience, how to play to a crowd, how to render opponents ineffective, and most amazingly how to relate to people making 30K per year. He understood working people far better than anybidy that ran for president. He was by far the smartest politician, despite having never been in politics his entire life. A case study could be done on how he ran circles around the field.
The Dems helped by nominating Hillary. Huge mistake for the Dems to only run a woman with a 35% approval rating, a devout socialist, and a Baltimore mayor no one ever heard of. They then stacked the deck to ensure the one person that could lose got the nomination. Further, they nominated the one person that could simultaneously motivate the GOP base while suppressing the Dem base. It's a statistical fact Hillary would have won had black turnout not dipped in Ohio, Michigan and Pennsylvania. But we don't really care for her all that much either.
Finally, here's the big issue. The Democrat party has lost tough with white men, and just doesn't underrstand them. I mean this in all sincerity. The past 30 years have been extremely hard on white men.
White men spent the first 90% of this nation's history as the unquestioned dominant force. They only competition they faced for jobs was other white men. Blacks and women didn't start getting jobs of any consequence until the mid to late 80s. The world had yet to really open up to immigrant competition until the 80s and 90s. Prior to these things happening white men could support their families with a single job, and provide them a middle class lifestyle.
At the same time the labor market was opening up to blacks, Hispanics, Asians, women, etc. jobs were being lost to outsourcing and advances in technology. It was placing a stress on white men to get ahead. Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying white men don't, or won't, compete. To the contrary, I believe white men of this age to be hard working to the highest order. Now, to the this together, get to the point, and bring it home to Trump.
White men have spent 30 years essentially running in place. Every group I mentioned above is better off than they were 30 years ago. White men? Not so much. That's what Dems don't understand.
I am black, but I often put myself in the shoes and mindset of my white best friend. He has spent years listening to people say white men were evil, taking flack for slavery despite his family never owning a slave, watching others benefit from stuff like affirmative action, title IS, and other programs that don't benefit him. So while others move ahead with programs designed to help every non white male group, he gets to work hard and have his tax dollars pay for it.
So Trump comes along and says "you're getting screwed," and the masses say "you're damn right. We are getting screwed and we're tired of this sh!t." The Dem response isn't to understand, because they don't understand. They don't understand that white men abandoned the party because the Democrats started caring about illegal aliens more than the white men that built this country. The Dems said it was racism, hatred of immigrants and dislike of Muslims. They never understood the underlying issues why white men left the party.
Trump? He got it. He understood. That is why he was sworn in despite the Dems having an overwhelming electoral college advantage.
By the way, my dad was an oil executive. He literally made more than my best friend's dad by a factor of 10. Yet, I had government provided advantages over him. Now why wouldn't the average white male not think that was unfair? Stuff like that is why Trump won.
Long as sh!t. Sorry.
1. Trump is a brilliant politician
2. Dems nominated Hillary
3. Dems don't understand white men
Trump is brilliant. Plain and simple. He understands his audience, how to play to a crowd, how to render opponents ineffective, and most amazingly how to relate to people making 30K per year. He understood working people far better than anybidy that ran for president. He was by far the smartest politician, despite having never been in politics his entire life. A case study could be done on how he ran circles around the field.
The Dems helped by nominating Hillary. Huge mistake for the Dems to only run a woman with a 35% approval rating, a devout socialist, and a Baltimore mayor no one ever heard of. They then stacked the deck to ensure the one person that could lose got the nomination. Further, they nominated the one person that could simultaneously motivate the GOP base while suppressing the Dem base. It's a statistical fact Hillary would have won had black turnout not dipped in Ohio, Michigan and Pennsylvania. But we don't really care for her all that much either.
Finally, here's the big issue. The Democrat party has lost tough with white men, and just doesn't underrstand them. I mean this in all sincerity. The past 30 years have been extremely hard on white men.
White men spent the first 90% of this nation's history as the unquestioned dominant force. They only competition they faced for jobs was other white men. Blacks and women didn't start getting jobs of any consequence until the mid to late 80s. The world had yet to really open up to immigrant competition until the 80s and 90s. Prior to these things happening white men could support their families with a single job, and provide them a middle class lifestyle.
At the same time the labor market was opening up to blacks, Hispanics, Asians, women, etc. jobs were being lost to outsourcing and advances in technology. It was placing a stress on white men to get ahead. Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying white men don't, or won't, compete. To the contrary, I believe white men of this age to be hard working to the highest order. Now, to the this together, get to the point, and bring it home to Trump.
White men have spent 30 years essentially running in place. Every group I mentioned above is better off than they were 30 years ago. White men? Not so much. That's what Dems don't understand.
I am black, but I often put myself in the shoes and mindset of my white best friend. He has spent years listening to people say white men were evil, taking flack for slavery despite his family never owning a slave, watching others benefit from stuff like affirmative action, title IS, and other programs that don't benefit him. So while others move ahead with programs designed to help every non white male group, he gets to work hard and have his tax dollars pay for it.
So Trump comes along and says "you're getting screwed," and the masses say "you're damn right. We are getting screwed and we're tired of this sh!t." The Dem response isn't to understand, because they don't understand. They don't understand that white men abandoned the party because the Democrats started caring about illegal aliens more than the white men that built this country. The Dems said it was racism, hatred of immigrants and dislike of Muslims. They never understood the underlying issues why white men left the party.
Trump? He got it. He understood. That is why he was sworn in despite the Dems having an overwhelming electoral college advantage.
By the way, my dad was an oil executive. He literally made more than my best friend's dad by a factor of 10. Yet, I had government provided advantages over him. Now why wouldn't the average white male not think that was unfair? Stuff like that is why Trump won.
Long as sh!t. Sorry.
