I think Sanders did a much better job of reaching that demographic, so I'd argue it was represented, but the Democrat party decided other priorities were more important by selecting Clinton.
Trump went after issues that actually matter. Be careful, I'm not saying LGBT rights and racism don't matter, I'm just saying they aren't really the centerfold of America anymore.
The degree to which people believe this is striking. The reality is that these protections are very recent developments and are today easily reversed, particularly by an administration that cares less than usual about the details of how the federal government is run.
The national legalization of gay marriage happened via the Supreme Court just last year. There is no reason at all it could not be reversed under a new court.
A lot more rests in Department of Justice policy. Look at what Justice has been doing to investigate and clean up racial bias in municipal police forces recently. They have consent decrees with Seattle, Cleveland, and others to try to change the way they do policing.
A new administration could easily abandon every one of those agreements, and the goal of removing racial bias from policing generally. It might even be likely--senior people in the Trump campaign have praised racial profiling as an effective and useful police tactic.
Edit to add: in general, social progress must be continuously defended. Nothing is every "done" in a democracy.
Yes, there is; it's "stare decisis". Even Dred Scott has not been reversed because of it.
Political donations are not supposed to be tax deductible and yet the Clinton Foundation carries on existence as a 501c3; double dipping so that a majority of her income as one of the most wealthy politicians comes in tax deductible while she pays not taxes on it.
In light of the blatant collusion and conflicts of interest released in her emails she should've been barred from running in the first place.
The difference is that he does not pretend to be non-racist, non-sexist and not-misogynistic. A lot of people do.
[edit] I am not american, but somehow I can understand that he won the election. He is a honest hustler among a bunch of good liars. He won't stab you in the back. Maybe in the chest. But you will see it coming.
And I mean that with no sarcasm. I would genuinely like to see you make the case that he is not racist, sexist and/or misogynistic.
And he was careful never to insult big parts of the electorate - it was usually the left that generalized.
All of his big gaffes were either towards non citizens or specific citizens. He never had his basket of deplorables moment.
It was between him and Megyn Kelly, the latino judge, the khans.
And we get to the "grab them by the pussy" - and we end in the messy world of human courtship ... where we are all sexist and objectifying the objects of our desire. Both sexes included.
Of course the assaults are assaults ... and I won't defend them. Somehow they disappeared from the media in the last few days though.
Trump is a dirty fighter. But I think that the majority of his sexism, racism or wherever is mostly opportunistic strikes where he sees weakness.
Trump is labeled racist, sexist and misogynistic because of his words and actions. As are most people.
And lots of people saw a Trump presidency as a possibility, like, everyone paying attention to the fact that there was a Republican presidential runner, and that person was Trump.