I use to joke Trump was a false flag operation.
Doesn't seem so funny now.
I think it was you I told that this would definitively show the mindset of white americans. If Trump gets more than 30% of the white vote we still have a very large racial problem here in the US.
Not everyone who will vote for Trump is a racist. A lot of people will vote for Trump because they hate Hillary, not Mexicans.
Trump's base is the bigots and racists the GOP has been nurturing for a long time, but they aren't enough to win a general election. They were energetic enough to win primaries, because people who are passionate in their hatred and anger have a lot of energy and turn out in disproportionate numbers during primaries. Most sane people don't bother to vote in primaries, and that's a huge problem. That is the reason Trump beat out all the great conservatives we had on the slate. The crazies turned out in force while the sane people stayed home and watched Netflix.
The general election is an entirely different dynamic. The mix is much different than the mix you see in the primaries. There's a much larger sane element.
Unfortunately, the sane people are too late. They let the crazies decide the ultimate nominees, and now they have to choose between a huckster and a harpy.