Why did America elect Donald Trump as President?
On a macro level, his win represents a final primal scream, a last gasp of frustration from those who see the country changing, an explosion of rage that we're seeing globally. Trump is a big "**** you" to everyone who has frustrated these people.
It didn't help that the Dems ran a mediocre candidate, and it didn't help that hardcore Left animated this rage with their ugly Political Correctness and Identity Politics tactics, and by publicly mocking and insulting conservatives. These behaviors were tailor-made for talk radio and conservative internet, which could then point at them and say "see?" The hardcore Left refuse to admit the role they played in this.
This hasn't played out yet fully, so we'll see. It will at some point. And the Right is simply not equipped, not trained, to use thoughtful reason and intelligence to stop what's coming.
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