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Doctorow assumes that racists got Trump elected, because Trump and his Russian cronies persuaded them to vote, using targeted advertising. He is insulting larg
by alejohausner 8y ago
Doctorow assumes that racists got Trump elected, because Trump and his Russian cronies persuaded them to vote, using targeted advertising.
He is insulting large swathes of reasonable non-racist voters, who chose Trump as a protest to the status quo. They looked at Hillary, and saw four more years of kowtowing to corporate interests, and ignoring working class voters. They saw crappy jobs replacing the jobs they'd had before the recession. They saw that no bankers went to prison. They saw the Democrats' shoddy treatment of Sanders, and figured the Dems needed a spanking.
That's why we're stuck with this self-promoting windbag: not because voters are stupid, but because they made a rational decision, and chose a clown over a corporate crony.
- varjag 8y agoTrump ran on the platform of racism, xenophobia and hatred. To support him (aside from whatever legitimate grievance one had) is to support that. Everyone who voted for him is responsible for his policies, and it's really doubtful that many of them regret it.
- Izkata 8y ago> They saw the Democrats' shoddy treatment of Sanders This is one part of the protest voting that's consistently left out, but I think is more important than people realize. Trump and Sanders had one thing in common: They didn't pander to corporations, though for different reasons. Sanders wanted to get that money out of politics, and Trump had no use for their donations. After Sanders was out of the running, the mixture of how he was treated and the DNC having chosen the corporate candidate led quite a few in my circles to vote Trump specifically in protest.