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Originally Posted by Hockeyguy15
The biggest thing for me is Trump is so clearly sexist and racist, I can't understand how people want him to represent their country. Mind bottling.
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Because deep down, those things don't matter to the silent majority that Trump was able to mobilize.
As Bill Clinton once famously said: "It's the economy stupid". IE: jobs.
Trump told the millions of lower-income, lower-educated white men and women across America that he would return America to greatness and get them jobs. He didn't campaign on any moral issues unless absolutely necessary to stoke that portion of the base. In fact, every single move and scandal established that he was a bigot but people ultimately didn't care. They responded to the message about returning the American economy to the supposed greatness that was stolen from them. If that means further setting back race relations and sexual equality? He doesn't care. His voters don't care. They just felt they were marginalized and being forgotten in an increasingly PC and liberal atmosphere where the topic of conversation was almost always not on them. Democracy is the rule of the mob in many cases and the mob wants their jobs and perhaps passively agreed with Trump on the inside anyway. There were many times I read defenses of Trump where the average Trump voter said: "he's an Alpha male, he's supposed to be aggressive toward women", etc. Deep down in our genes, I think we still respond to that somehow.