With the election finally over, lots of people are asking themselves “where did we go wrong?” While this is a vocal minority, I’d like to address your concerns as condescendingly as possible so you know how it feels.
First off is your assumption that this is “wrong”. There is no objective right or wrong answer to an election, it is a measure of opinions. Telling people that their opinions are wrong is precisely why many say that Donald Trump won. Unsurprisingly, running a campaign where you try to convince people to vote for you by calling them bigoted assholes was a bad move. It’s a baseless accusation that does nothing but embolden those who aren’t, and even drove more people to the other side when those people empathized with the falsely accused. In a way, shouting “racist” is the birther movement of the left.
But maybe this was more than just a “fuck you” to the millennial cucks who don’t remember 2000. Maybe Donald Trump was actually the better candidate. After all, as many of us may have forgotten, there were actual policies and issues beneath the rag-mag gossip that drew TV ratings. Let me ask you a question:
Why did Hillary Clinton want to be President?
If your first thought was, “to stop Donald Trump” then congratulations, you’re retarded. Hillary had no reason to be President besides continuing Obama’s and her family’s legacies. She had no central theme to her movement, and with 75% of people polled believing that the country is “heading in the wrong direction” offered no viable change.
Trump’s campaign was very obviously built on improving America, cleaning up corruption, and defending our rights and border. Whether or not you think he believes these things is a non-opposition. Discrediting him because you think he’s just lying does nothing to debate his policies. I can say I thought Hillary was lying the whole time, too, and now we’ve reduced our argument to nothing of substance. So, assuming Trump actually believes what he says (the modicum of faith that any campaign is built upon), maybe some of us thought actual policy and change was a better campaign than “fuck the other guy.”
You get more flies with honey than vinegar. Maybe some of you liberals reading this will never admit it, but Hillary Clinton is the one who campaigned on fear and hate and nothing more. She had almost no true support or enthusiasm and, had President-elect Trump not literally handed her easy talking points, would have lost this election decisively. We chose a candidate who spoke to concerns we had, not ones they invented. That’s why we voted for Trump.
Also, fuck you.
