Re: POTUS thread
My analysis was wrong. In fact, my early on prediction of a narrow Trump popular vote win coupled to a significant electoral college defeat was more or less exactly the reverse of what has occurred.
There is a segment of the USA that gets misty-eyed when they hear "Proud to Be an American" that has been sneered at too much and they found in Trump a standard bearer for their anger. The working "class" (a much less sweeping term here than in Europe) was frustrated and angered with an anemic GDP growth rate and regulations etc. that marginalized whole industries and/or assisted growth overseas more than at home -- they want to work and get paid, not be retrained and safety-netted and they found in Trump a standard bearer for that anger. They deeply resented a government which refused to enforce its own laws on immigration and which made efforts to protect the human rights of illegal aliens more thoroughly than that government protected the rights of its own citizens and they found in Trump a standard bearer for that anger.
Familiar names from proud political pedigrees -- the establishment -- were the target of this anger. Those supporting Trump chose a person who used the loopholes in the law to his own advantage over a person who set aside or arguably broke the law for her own convenience and enrichment.
That anger at the collective establishment -- and those who "felt the burn" were fellow travelers in this -- was the...pardon me...Trump card for this entire election season.
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