Republicans voted for Trump because Republican voters always vote Republican. But it was the swing voters who put him over the top. They voted for Trump despite his crazy rhetoric, his violent rallies and his incoherent promises. They were determined to howl their ballotbox cris de coeur. After decades of NAFTA and outsourcing and Rust Beltification and H1-B visas for foreigners while American tech workers can't find work, they demanded to be heard. They did that by voting for Trump.
Trump isn't merely devoted to his base. He is beholden to them. They put him in the White House even though he didn't want to go.
The second takeaway here is that Hillary was an even worse candidate than her biggest detractors (cough cough) believed. Ruminate on this: she lost to a man who tried to lose.
A man with no experience.
With no campaign.
A nut.
You may be asking yourself here, why keep bashing Hillary? Why not leave her alone and move on?
Because Clinton won't leave us alone. Because Clintonism, centrism, Third Wayism, DLCism are still running the Democratic Party. Because her corporate neoliberal BS was discredited at the polls yet the party bosses and Dem-aligned media outlets keep shoving it down voters' throats. Because progressivism and socialism are more popular but can't get any air until a big sharp stake is driven through the undead heart of soulless centrism once and for all (I'm looking at you, Tim Kaine and Kamala Harris.)
So think on that a while. Hillary Clinton was so sucky that she lost to the suckiest, stupidest, losingest candidate anyone ever dreamed of.
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