If you still don't understand why people voted Trump
The thing is, Trump got 1.3 million less votes than Romney. Clinton got 6 million less votes than Obama.
The biggest chunk of that 6 million came from the the ~15 million or so Sanders voters who just stayed home and let nature take its course.
Trump didn't win this election. Clinton lost it. It's an important distinction to gauge what is possible in the future. Trump isn't a Reagan revolution or any kind of revolution, but he is indeed the result of neoliberalism failing to defend itself. BARELY failing to defend itself with the worst candidate in history.
That's not something to be too happy about, even if you're a social conservative or a new deal democrat.
is that Clinton's method of dealing with things she didn't want to talk about was simply better than Trump's
I'd have to strongly disagree. She'd either deny, keep her mouth shut, and, the worst tactic of all, sprout out incomprehensible word salads when put on the spot. I've lost count of the times I've furrowed by brows while listening to her speak and wondered "are those.... sentences? Valid sentences? Does that parse?" and then go through and study the structure and grammar being used. It was uncomfortably like listening to a Chinese Room at times.
If you just admit to something that's blatantly obvious, it stops being a story because there's no drama left to it. The story concludes and then it dies. Like a missing airliner finally confirmed to have crashed and
not been abducted by aliens.
If she was just an Iron Lady who crushed the bones of republicans and made them cry, she still could have won as an acknowledged crook. But they kept trying to PR massage her image into something it could never be: everyone's nice grandma that even those republicans like.
For the harbingers of political correctness, they can't even respect other people's opinions no matter how retarded those opinions are.
The same fucks who talk down to people worried about the fact jobs are evaporating in their little towns are probably the same smug assholes who claimed they didn't "need the votes" of Bernie's people. Look at how that turned out.
What the democrats have to offer those people is pretty shit. Bernie's proposal to people where the coal mines were shut down was $ assistance and "retraining". To put up hypothetical solar panels that don't and might never exist, I guess? It is some weaksauce, as articulated by this one writer:
Consider this: in 29 states, truck driving is the number one job and it is one of the few jobs left that can provide a middle class living for high school grads. What will happen to the 1.5 million families who get their daily bread from a truck driver when all of those jobs are eliminated by driverless trucks? It’s not a matter of if but when. Are we going to teach all those drivers to code or retrofit windows or whatever other pathetic nonsense we’ve held up as a solution? This new reality is upon us. The markets are not going to magically fix it.