Dear Democrats, Read This If You Do Not Understand Why Trump Won

Re:Dear Democrats, Read This If You Do Not Understand Why Tr... by baldfat on Thursday November 10, 2016 @09:28AM (#12920577)

> Trump just sold people a better future to this voters than Hillary did. Whether he is going to solve any issues of his voters, is a different thing.

Really I found what he sold was doom and gloom. Death of America if he wasn't elected.

Seriously asking because I guess I am blind but what future is he selling besides we all would cease to exist as a country and a democracy if he lost?

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Re:Dear Democrats, Read This If You Do Not Understand Why Tr... by candiodari on Thursday November 10, 2016 @10:31AM (#12921177)

https://www.donaldjtrump.com/contract/

See "actions to protect the American worker", essentially, isolationism. Anti NAFTA, anti TPP, anti China dumping, anti UN regulations (ie. anti climate change, or at least anti economic impact from climate change).

In the last section there's something about working to punish people employing illegal immigrants, which is a very sore point with poor Americans.

These are not going to be very popular actions on Hacker News, but is it that hard to see that there's a TON of poor Americans this would resonate with ?

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Re:Dear Democrats, Read This If You Do Not Understand Why Tr... by someguydave on Friday November 11, 2016 @08:48AM (#12930549)

His voters were mostly middle income. They rightly feel that the benefits of trade have mostly accrued to coastal connected elites and not them.

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Re:Dear Democrats, Read This If You Do Not Understand Why Tr... by baldfat on Thursday November 10, 2016 @09:02PM (#12926776)

None of that is a positive motivated promise. Everyone of them come from a negative stopping promise. Also he won't get but a few dfinished of those things done. AKA Term Limits in Congress LOL

Also we became the number one energy producing nation, under Obama, in the world he is acting like we have been holding off of trillions of revenue.

I hope I wrong but none of that is a future this is fixing yesterdays problems.

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Re:Dear Democrats, Read This If You Do Not Understand Why Tr... by gorbachev on Thursday November 10, 2016 @10:29AM (#12921153)

His underlying message was almost the same as Bernie Sanders', i.e. "the establishment is not serving you, but the corporate overlords". That's not doom and gloom. It's the reality of much of America. The people living that reality blame the Clintons (and Obama, and to a lesser degree the two Bushes) for making it happen.

That's ultimately why he won.

He got some bonus votes from racists and other kooks, and he wrapped his core message in the typical right-wing xenophobia that resonates well with the base of the modern GOP.

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