Aura7541 on 16 November 2016
| fleischr said: 53 percent of white women voted for Trump. And the question is... how the hell did that happen? Without a doubt, women knew of Trump's sexist and misogynistic tendencies, but why wasn't that a deal breaker? The truth is, it would have been had Democrats not pandered to women on that fact. The left has got so caught up with character assassination that people are just fed up with it. You've cried wolf on racism, sexism, homophobia, etc so much that people don't care to listen to you - especially when you do very little on substantive details of what your policies really stand for. The Clinton campaign tried to win by focusing exclusively on Trumps negatives. People just don't tolerate that behavior anymore. There's more to it than showing the bad in the other side, you have to make a compelling, specific case on why your policies are best for people independent of whether your rival is a sinner or a saint. |
And to add onto the "Trump is a racist" allegations, he did better than Mitt Romney with the black, Hispanic, and Asian vote both percentage-wise and in raw numbers. Romney was considered to be a "moderate" Republican candidate whereas Trump is more brash. However, those brash statements didn't stop him from doing a better job with the minority vote.
