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by gfodor
3149 days ago
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The thing that seems to have gotten lost is that ultimately the choice for all Americans was between Trump and Hillary. There are many millions of Americans who came into 2016 with the view, established over the last 2 decades, warranted or not, they would never, under any circumstance, vote for Hillary Clinton for president. Within that group, there were many who felt that they would do anything, including vote for a person like Trump, to prevent such an outcome. Trump is hated now but it's easy to forget what a fundamental difference this was. There were large swaths of voters who would have voted D if literally any other person with a pulse was on the ticket. For the most part, In fact, those people did do just that when they voted for Obama TWICE in the last two elections: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/2016-electi... I think the narrative that the electorate embraced Trump belies the fact that just as much, if not more, of the dynamic was that the electorate, unsurprisingly, rejected Hillary specifically (who by the way, as is known now, cheated the candidate who probably deserved to be on the ticket.) |
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