Offer a starving man liberty or a packet of sandwiches, it is said, and he will naturally choose sandwiches. But the classes to whom our appeal is addressed are not actually starving, though they may be commendably disturbed about how many of their countrymen are in this plight.-Marx (and undoubtedly borrowed by Trump…

Yes and no. Economically, the left has been bending over backward to lift everyone (versus the usual “tax breaks for the rich” strategy of the right): bank regulation after the recession, Obamacare, pushes for minimum wage increases, etc. In terms of social issues, I’d agree there’s a gulf there, but I don’t know…

Dude Trump won already, there’s no need to keep up the fucking lies. Just admit what you are, a fucking racist. It’s ok, the white people have spoken. Now get ready to get fucked by Trump. When someone is hated by everyone in their home town, that should be a clue that there’s something wrong with that person. New…

Except that can’t be it. Clinton disproportionately lost counties that bounced back the most since the recession. There was no correlation between Trump support and areas hurt by trade. He’s anti-union, so not sure where you got that part. Literally the only part of the message they got was pro-white identity…

Are you part of this community? Do you live among them? Are they in your family? I can answer yes to two of those questions and tell you, with absolute confidence, yes it fucking is about racism, sexism, and xenophobia.

Yes, he continued to lie to a lot of people and did so with vigor and enthusiasm unmatched. You’re not revealing anything we didn’t know. I guess Clinton should have just lied to them too.

Are you blaming Liberals only for the failures of our country when it was the republican party that has been a straight obstructionist party on everything the Democrats have tried to accomplish since 2008!?! Yes, I will concede that the DNC is the joke that keeps on giving the republicans everything they have ever…

“I look forward to them lashing out at the GOP in the next midterm when their situation doesn’t markedly improve.”

The “something else” is called logic. It’s logical to assume that the person who is better qualified, better funded, better supported, performs better, campaigns better, and who runs on a less divisive (i.e. less sexist and racist) platform will win. The only point at which that isn’t logical is if you’re aware of…

Continuing to ignore that core truth. there have been several articles over the last few weeks that stressed the reality that this was not about the economy. The people voting for Trump were mostly employed and not low income.

THIS. I have never met a more clueless band of morons than this electorate.

I’m not sure it was even being arrogant. When she is more objectively more qualified, she beat him in all the debates, had more donors, more competent surrogates in the media, etc. Combine that with his candidacy created a massive rift within the party to the point that everyone he wronged will now be forced to work…

I guess the great crime here is that Hillary failed to offer up impossible and worthless platitudes to these folks. I don’t look down on working class people, my father certainly falls into that category. However, you’re selling snake oil to these people if you try to convince them that manufacturing is coming back as…

Weird how the only economic demographic Trump didn’t win was people making under $50k annually, but sure, this was “economic anxiety.”

White communities in suburban areas, like my home of suburban Wayne County (Detroit) have seen successful economic rebounds and improvements since the bottoming out of 2006 - 2010.

You mean those people who have a lower unemployment rate than black people are “hard hit” by the economy? Get the fuck out of here with that bullshit. This election was tribalism. They wanted one of their own and got that. There is no policy to debate or discuss.

Nope. Racism is (again) shorthand for white class anxiety. Intersectional or fuck off.

Spoiler alert: it’s not going to get better for them. It’s been downhill for them since the Reagan administration, but they keep voting for the folks that ship their jobs overseas, bankrupt their pensions, pull their social safety nets, etc. Asking for sympathy while shooting yourself in the foot really only…

I woke this morning extremely confused. In theory as a Repub I should be happy, but I’m not. I can not believe the country could possibly be this stupid, but yeah actually I can.

It depends what you mean by “America”. Americans with life threatening conditions who lose their insurance may very well NOT survive this. Americans who have their status in this country challenged may very well NOT thrive. American kids who get shot as a result of a “stop and frisk” gone wrong will NOT grow.