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This is my feeling, too. This was too systemic and too pervasive to be attributable to a single misplaced platform plank, or a single strategic blunder. This isn't due to [insert pet peeve here]. This was a nationwide cry for a course correction. It was the tangible manifestation of a disconnected electorate seeking the comforting embrace of a father figure. Even if sometimes they don't like the way daddy treats them, they still love him, deep down. They still trust him to take care of them. They're attached to him on an emotional level, and emotions are not rational, nor do they have to be internally consistent with beliefs and ideals.
Immigrants voted to deport immigrants. Black people voted for a loud, unapologetic racist. Women voted for a rapist. They care more about what he's going to do for them than they do about how he treats or talks about them.
I have several very politically disconnected friends, and a month or so ago a divorced blue collar white guy told me, "I'm fucked either way, and neither of them are going to do anything for me, so I might as well vote for him." I can't even fucking argue with that. Dude's just trying to make ends meet, and he's grasping on to anyone who says they're going to help, even if he knows it's probably a lie.
That shit's dark.