“A year after Trump’s historic election, it’s important to keep a sense of perspective.”
A year ago, on November 8th, Trump won a resounding and stunning victory. He flipped many states throughout the Midwest and Great Lakes, such as Pennsylvania, that haven’t gone Republican in over 20 years. The spectacular victory led to a good deal of soul searching among Democrats, but mostly finger pointing. Because Hillary lost the election but ended up winning the popular vote by several million, many Democrats complained about the Electoral College and even called it a tool of white supremacy, but before her stunning loss, most Democrats were bragging about Clinton’s “Blue Wall.” Combined with the Russian scandal that has blown up in their faces, these accusations show that Democrats lack self-awareness and how that lack will continue to repel the voters they need to gain.
The Blue Wall is referred to as a series of states, particularly in the Northeast and Midwest, that have consistently voted Democratic since 1992. These states combine to equal 242 votes of the 270 needed to win in the Electoral College. As a result, the Democrats had an incredible advantage, as they only needed a handful of additional states, such as Florida, North Carolina, and Ohio, in order to win.
Before the election, analysts discussed this Blue Wall as though it were an article of faith. Trump was blasted for wasting resources in places like Pennsylvania, and Hillary Clinton never campaigned in places like Wisconsin but actually spent money in the Sun Belt and “nice to have” states in an effort to drive up the score.
They will continue to lose because working class whites got the hint that they don’t really matter in the transgendered, micro-aggressed, trample the flag, black lives matter party.
Before the election, she was cruising to a victory based on her strength in the system, but after the election, the same system became “fundamentally complicit in the suppression of minority rights.” This article and similar arguments were nonsense, and they became the excuse of the day until they were replaced by complaints about Russia. The complaints over the Electoral College have largely been forgotten in favor of the Russia scandal.
That scandal turned out to have legs. Over the last year, the Democrats pounded the scandal drum, and even got a special prosecutor to investigate. But much like Wile E. Coyote, the Democrats’ elaborate trap blew up in their face, and they are now standing there with a sign that says “yikes,” because it turns out there was collusion, only it was between Democratic operatives and Russian agents. Republicans and Democrats have exchanged talking points, and Democrats must now respond to attacks they’ve been making for the last year.
A year after Trump’s historic election, it’s important to keep a sense of perspective. Trump masterfully attracted rural and working class voters in key states that swung the election to him. The liberal excuse-making about a supposedly rigged system they valued up until the moment they lost, sexism, racism, and a Russia scandal that shows more guilt from their side do not help them to see the key reasons they lost. They will continue to lose because working class whites got the hint that they don’t really matter in the transgendered, micro-aggressed, trample the flag, black lives matter party.
