the economy was a big factorJohnStOnge wrote:The post to which you responded doesn't offer any opinion about why Trump got elected.houndawg wrote:
Goddamn, son, how clueless can you be? This election was never about smarts or qualifications. It was a giant FvckYou to the establishment from Butthurt Bubba because of, as they say in your neck of the woods, "that n***** in the White House". Wake up John.
But since you mentioned it I think it had a lot more to do with cultural issues than with a generalized FY to the establishment. I think White Evangelical Christians, for example, felt under siege by virtue of things like the Supreme Court forcing everyone to accept the idea of homosexual marriage and various States doing things like forcing bakers to bake cakes for homosexual couples, etc. Also the transgender bathroom stuff. All those things. As a result, I think, they voted more strongly for Trump than they voted for any other Republican candidate since exit polling began.
Also stuff like the big "diversity" push, affirmative action, etc. Stuff like the demonization of the Police. All that stuff, I think, created a backlash among certain elements of the White Christian culture.
Finally there was the illegal immigration thing. That was huge. I think Trump's "politically incorrect" position on that galvanized a certain group of people.

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