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kleinbl00  ·  3186 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Elite, White Feminism Gave Us Trump: It Needs to Die

This sort of article is tiresome - "here's a list of nine reasons why Hillary Clinton lost, but I'm going to focus on my pet peeve and argue by association that the other eight are related."

These articles, and I've read many, all boil down to "Trump voters either don't know or don't care that Clinton's advertised policies would have benefitted them more in the long run because" racism/elitism/political disenfranchisement/chauvinism/the right wing noise machine/fill_in_the_blank________. Trump won for a number of reasons and anyone who points to one thing and says "there's the monster" is lying to you.





snoodog  ·  3186 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Fair enough, the election was so close that any one single issue could have swung the vote the other way so its easy to pick your pet issue and make a point that if only Clinton was better at X she could have won.

I picked this article because it did a good job representing the way I and some of the people in my social group felt about the election not necessarily because it was the gospel truth of why she lost. Also in some ways those are the issues that I hope the next candidate that emerges will be able to address.