2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Hostility to women one of strongest predictors of Trump vote. [View all]Squinch
(51,220 posts)and with jobs voted for Hillary. So that's the global trade deals off the table.
As for abortion, if they are making their choice based on that one issue, they were never ours to begin with, and they never WILL BE with us, obviously.
Those who voted for trump did not vote for him over economic concerns, and Democrats don't switch over to another candidate because of that candidate's anti-abortion stance.
Much more likely than the idea that non-sexists and non-racists voted for a raging sexist racist is the idea that trump brought out a segment of the "sometimes votes" crowd that did not come out in the last election, and a percentage of Obama voters stayed home. I really don't see how we can logically say it was the same people.
A vote for trump was an act of racism and sexism.
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