> Amongst Trump supporters I know it was about jobs, the economy
Aren't unemployment and the economy doing better now than 8 years ago? My impression is Trump just fueled the emotion of pessimism (things are awful, they were great before), without neither the facts to back it (because he didn't care) nor a plan beyond the old "the more you cut taxes, the better the economy".
Even for the people that think the economy is important enough that the racism and sexism should be ignored, that's still playing to their emotion.
Re:Donald Trump Is Elected President
by lliamander on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @04:36PM
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labor force participation rates are still down. Unemployment can be a misleading statistic.
Jobs are also of a lower quality / less secure than in the past.
Keep thinking that and you'll lose the next election as well. Amongst Trump supporters I know it was about jobs, the economy, the wars and a feeling that politicians no longer represented them.
I have no doubt there are some Trump supporters who are racist and sexist, but that doesn't win you the middle swing states and the rust belt (especially those states that voted Obama but went against Clinton)