As many have already said, this will be the subject of many panels, articles, and books going forward over the next few years. Here’s one of the Democrat elites – a former First Lady, US Senator, Secretary of State. Fully loaded with a $1.2 Billion war chest, she lost to someone who spent half that amount. Here is one take on why – an inability to either read the electorate and what motivated them to vote for Trump, or giving off an air of “I’m taking you for granted OVER other groups” – or both. Diane Hessan believes she knows why; I took it to be that Democrats browbeat a large swath of the electorate in believing that they HAD to continue to support Democrat identity groups financially even over their own families and when THEIR times get hard (after all, it’s for the COMMON good and not necessarily your’s – WHAT, are you a RACIST / HOMOPHOBE / MISOGYNIST / XENOPHOBE??? Silence, or we’ll [figuratively] kill you!). Emphasis from Newsbusters:
Over the summer, I found and interviewed over 300 undecided voters, and 250 of them agreed to stay in touch, to send me weekly diary entries about their emotions, what they were thinking about both Clinton and Trump, and how they were leaning when it came to their vote. I had no responsibility to change their views; instead, I synthesized the data that I was collecting, and reported in to the campaign. I also added the insights that I had and made regular suggestions about how the campaign might better articulate its positions and modify its strategies.
… George’s story was one I ultimately heard over and over: He had lived in that part of Pennsylvania (Wilkes-Barre) his entire life, had worked hard, raised a family, paid his debts, sacrificed to get his kids through Wilkes University, and tried to do the right thing for others. “The government never helped me, but I was OK with that,” he said. “I made mistakes, had some scary moments, and my wife worked also at the local library to help out. I paid my bills, including my doctor bills.
“Now I see my tax dollars going to handouts for others who don’t want to work as hard as I did, and I can’t afford my health care. Everyone is being taken care of but me. I feel left out, and it makes me feel that I want my country back.”
That’s right – because you AREN’T in the protected class or a favored Democrat group. Obamacare was never really about healthcare – in its deepest meaning, it has always been about a MASSIVE redistribution of wealth from one class of people to another. Of COURSE those that have received tax subsides (e.g., other peoples’ money) just LOVE it to death – and why NOT? In essence, they have become entitled to believe that they have the RIGHT to demand that others sustain them. And if you look at the actual price of Obamacare, it fell heavily on those on the next step up just outside of being able to get those subsidies. A family of four has premiums of $12-$20K and deductibles into 5 figures, well, why shouldn’t there be resentment that “my money goes to them and NOT my own family”?
For that, in part, we were called deplorables (the worst of the worst) and irredeemables (unable to be sanctified and saved).
… There was one moment when I saw more undecided voters shift to Trump than any other, when it all changed, when voters began to speak differently about their choice. It wasn’t FBI Director James Comey, Part One or Part Two; it wasn’t Benghazi or the e-mails or Bill Clinton’s visit with Attorney General Loretta Lynch on the tarmac. No, the conversation shifted the most during the weekend of Sept. 9, after Clinton said, “You can put half of Trump supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables.”
All hell broke loose.
Only if you weren’t someone like us Groksters whom the Left here in NH have called us pretty much every name in the book for years would you have been surprised at this. What was surprising is that finally those who were just normal people and not political junkies said the equivalent of screw you with their votes.
George told me that his neighborhood was outraged, that many of his hard-working, church-going, family-loving friends resented being called that name. He told me that he looked up the word in the dictionary, and that it meant something so bad that there is no hope, like the aftermath of a tsunami. You know, he said, Clinton ended up being the biggest bully of them all. Whereas Trump bullied her, she bullied Wilkes Barre.
Things were not the same after that, at least with my voters..
That Left, just so tolerant. This election, they made themselves transparent of how badly they think of everyone that won’t toe their line. Hillary’s mask simply slipped during that private donor meeting and she got caught. Her words were not unusual coming from the Left when either they think they aren’t being heard – in fact, it is normal if you know them.
…If you had asked me to describe a Trump voter last spring, I would have been largely wrong about their motivations, dreams, and even their values. Sure, there are extremists among them, but it was eye-opening to realize how legitimate the concerns of many are, and to realize that, if I just listened hard, I would find that I have more in common with the Georges of the world that I could ever have imagined.
But this is the problem – the Left REFUSES to believe that others can have another worldview that is still sane, logical, and just as important as their own. That said, the Left is stuck in that phrase “Conservatives believe the LEFT is misguided – Liberals believe Conservatives are EVIL”. If you are not a Liberal, you belong to that other group.
And finally, FINALLY, the electorate got back in their face and knocked them down. And given their worldview bubble, they just can’t understand it.
(H/T: Newsbusters)
