Trump is, perhaps, not going to help "those people" but neither, in their minds, was Clinton. They are simply going with the "perhaps" rather than (again, in their mind) certain no.
[0] For example, suburbanites support Trump in about equal numbers and about 1/3 of college graduates and postgraduates support Trump. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/2016-electi...
I also am not sure what you mean by 'fellow citizens' or 'the left'. I'm not American. And Hillary Clinton is not a left candidate, she's centre-right.
The people your criticizing want job security, not lynchings.
Calling somebody out as racist is not name-calling if it's true.
I feel like the US has become this bizarre place where it's okay to be racist and sexist, but if you call people out for it you're the bad guy.
http://thefederalist.com/2016/10/27/berkeley-activists-block...
And as I said elsewhere, many of Trumps votes are coming from people that voted for Obama last time. Do you really think they are racist?
The first and second hit are from you, humorously enough.
> (, racist) working class folks
You didn't say Trump was, you tried to smear the whole working class or at least the ones that voted for Trump.
I don't like Trump, I just personally refuse to think that 50% of Americans are stupid racists.
Racism has been shamed for many decades, and Trump made it 'in' again.
Racism was a major issue in this election. The SNL's 'black jeopardy' skit was surprisingly observant in this respect [1]. I didn't expect people on HN to just dismiss it like that. Or completely ignoring an argument about how people cutting their nose to spite their face, because it included the word 'racist'.
It's kind of ironic, like I tickled somebody's PC funny bone, when Trump's campagin was all about the freedom to say whatever you want.
Since this is a thread on an American presidential election, on the American political spectrum, Mrs. Clinton would be considered to be on the left or center-left.
I'm not a Trump supporter, but I do live in coastal California, and the absolute derision with which I see relatively privileged, affluent, college educated people treat or talk about the working/rural poor in "flyover" country makes me question whether, despite my current views, I too wouldn't vote Trump if I found myself on the receiving end of such hostility.
As long as you're white, male, hetero, anti-intelectual, Christian, and not born in another country.
EDIT: it seems that people are really sensitive about being called out for all the hate Trump spews in their name.
Bernie and Trump are touching into the same underlying problem that a lot of people have been left behind. They have felt screwed by the system for awhile and this is what we get. Heck, Bernie supporters got screwed again during the primary.
This is also only the start. Wait until we automate all fast food and driving jobs to see what a angry, jobless populace looks like.
I mean as far as name-calling goes, I got the impression Hillary is doing almost none of that; whereas Trump was vicious.
“The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic – you name it. And unfortunately, there are people like that. And he has lifted them up.
“Some of those folks,” she added, “they are irredeemable.”
Beyond that it's difficult to say, Trump has promised little but hinted at a lot.
The American left took its eyes off of what's important, namely the working class, and instead spent its time and political capital on frivolous[0] causes. This is a wake-up call to refocus.
[0] Lots of things some might consider important are frivolous when you're living paycheck-to-paycheck.