can someone tell me what really happened to get Trump into office?
Because I’m sick of the “angelic democrats vs. evil redneck ‘publicans and terrible centrists” narrative and I’m starting to wish Clinton won so my family and everyone else could shut up.
Uuuuhh… hang on
- Visited the working class sections of america, where Clinton didn’t bother to show up
- Clinton ignoring the advice of her HUSBAND about how to run a successful campaign
- People being furious about bernie getting pushed out by the democratic party
- Something something emails???
- The tendency for people to vote more extreme during times of instability/“weakness” and voting for whoever promises to make it all better
- Reaction to two democratic terms and the public being really fickle over what it wants
- Cult of personality around trump/ appealing to nostalgia ie ‘good old days’
- Clinton acting like she had already won/ ineffectual appealing to youth/minority groups
That’s off the to of my head
Huh. Thanks.
It also helps that Hillary didn’t present a positive message for the future, while Trump did. Hillary’s message was always about what was wrong with Trump, while Trump’s message was how great him and his supporters were and how well they would do at making America better. Positivity is important.
Also
- Clinton straight up collapsed and had to get bundled into a car and there was video of it that mysteriously got copy right claimed and had spin machines saying “NO NO SHE’S THE PICTURE OF HEALTH” while her campaign kept INSISTING Donald Trump Would Blow His Gasket Any Day Now And Keel Over
- She saw Hamilton 3 times, more times than she visited entire rust belt states, opting instead to send in representatives of her like John Podesta and fuckin Lena Dunham. Meanwhile, Trump toured pretty much every last of the 48 continental united states.
- She was such a weak candidate that her team thought that Ted Cruz and Mario Rubio were major threats. So they set up Trump to be the candidate for her to beat because they thought he’d be the easiest one to take out.
- Ignored warnings as to Trump’s strong position in certain areas.
- Ran a campaign that mainly defined itself on being NOT TRUMP WE’RE NOT TRUMP
- As the wife of a career politician and former governor and president as well as a former Secretary of State, and Junior US Senator in NY she was about as pure Establishment with a Capital E as you could possibly get
- She had a campaign that struggled for multiple years to craft messages and taglines as to why she was running again, laying bear a crisis of message in that countless political types in the DC Beltway have no idea how to convey WHY their politicians are doing something to a vast majority of americans
- She has the charisma of damp cardboard and the charm of an std diagnosis. She has that insincere creepy smile on all the time and a measured, robotic, calculating delivery that mutes everything she tries to say and replaces it with an audio track of Alex Jones screaming about shapeshifting lizard people infiltrating humanity
- She refused to take the L and hint that she’d never obtain the much lusted after POTUS position when it should’ve been clear she was never gonna win it after losing to an unknown black Illinois Junior Senator that used to pal around with political radicals and ex domestic terrorists with a Muslim middle name a scant 7 years after 9/11 and in a period still defined by intense Islamophobia
- The numerous political scandals surrounding her husband as well as her own, including how there was a scandal involving her mishandling a server full of classified intel a scant few months before she ran
- Arrogance so thick about her winning being SO CERTAIN that the Clintonites thought that Texas and some other red states could flip blue for the first time ever and poured MILLIONS into advertising there as the blue rust belt states that voted for Obama just plain collapsed in democrat support
- how they screwed over the Sanders campaign and completely misread the populist groundswell of support
- she picked an absolute NOBODY center right leaning democrat as vp, weakening her already weak position further
- as the wife of a former president and a career politician in her own right, she’s a dynasty candidate. a dynasty in a country that started off by rebelling against dynastic rulers in the form of the UK. a dynasty that still remembers the bitter days of George W Bush, a dynasty as the son of a former president that campaigned and won against Al Gore, Bill Clinton’s VP. after the american people rejected a dynasty in the form of long time senators and herself once, she thought she could pull it off somehow and failed.
- she’s such a weak candidate that pretty much every single media institution that wasn’t like, fox news or a few fringe conservative joints, almost every goddamn left leaning hollywood celeb, even the non hyperpartisans and about everyone sucking up to her and minimizing how bad she sucked couldn’t help her win.
- they ignored people on the ground that were telling them trends were working against them and even lacked literature that could be handed out
- you can’t even say it’s racism or bigotry or anything because all white areas that turned out for obama either flipped trump or had registered democrats that stayed at home and sat on their hands
- bizarre attempts at pandering and failed meme warfare, as well as idiotic stunts like declaring pepes as hate symbols and “Pokemon Go to the polls” as well as when she fuckin naenae’d on Ellen
- Clinton getting caught on mic shittalking Bernie Sanders supporters when she should’ve been cultivating them
- Clinton was an insider and legacy, while Trump was an unpredictable that postured himself as an outsider and an underdog, both of which americans absolutely LOVE. the fuckin tycoon from nyc was able to position himself as a rebel and instead of attacking his status of him having hobnobbed with celebs, politicians, THE CLINTONS and anything like that they just kept trying to attack him as a person when nothing they threw at him worked.
- this isn’t a problem with Clinton specifically but with the Democrats but it’s still an issue that was endemic with the campaign: the Democrats have abandoned the Rust Belt and blue collar areas entirely. They’ve offered token or zero resistance to trade agreements that decimated the poorer classes in rural or central areas of america. they’ve turned on unions. they’ve let the recession grind these areas down even more. and Clinton supported the TPP. meanwhile, Trump stood in front of recycling plants, in the shadow of closed factories and even in states that ate, slept, and shit blue and said that not only would he oppose these trade deals but he’d also rework/tear up trade agreements existing and would work to punish companies that moved jobs from the US.
- her and the democrats continuing to blame literally everything except themselves and clinton being a weak candidate and continually re-litigating the election ad infinitum will ensure the democrats won’t win anything unless they REALLY change
it also has a lot to do with the way the political climate has been developing for decades now
You forgot Spirit cooking.
What on…forget it.
The details get complicated, but the strategy of the DMC (as laid out in their own internal emails, which they failed to properly secure) was to push hard for Trump to be the Republican nominee using their influence over the media because they thought he would be easiest to beat. Then they straight up cheated their own system to give the Democratic nomination to Clinton.
At which point the fight was over, right? There was absolutely no chance Trump could beat Clinton, and anyway everybody loves her and it’s her turn to be president so the actual election was already decided. So they stopped fighting. They never bothered to campaign in most states, they never mentioned any kind of plan to improve things, they just insulted Trump a little and started celebrating their victory.
Meanwhile everybody knew that Trump was an evil moron, but everybody also knew that continuing to do the same stupid shit the government has been doing for the past twenty years would just continue the country’s slow downward spiral. Trump represented a change, for better or worse, and a lot of people decided it was worth taking the gamble.
There’s more to it, with the various individual scandals and crimes direct insults to their own voters and other shit that came to light, and each of those was a contributing factor, but the fundamental failure was on the strategic level. Trump presented himself as the person who would change things, Clinton presented herself as the person who had already won.
