I think Americans in most of their political discourse continue to miss the point. There's a significant portion of the country who voted for the guy and will vote for him again. He's just a symptom. Whatever it is that's making those people vote for him is where everyone's attention needs to be.
For the most part, the lives of people who live in cities has gotten better over the last generation. They voted for the status quo.
For the most part, the lives of people who don't live in cities has not gotten better over the last generation, and they voted for change.
These differences are structural, and I don't think anybody knows how to make them better. You can tell people to give up their current lifestyle and move somewhere else with more opportunity and a completely different lifestyle, but that's a really hard sell.
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I think Americans in most of their political discourse continue to miss the point. There's a significant portion of the country who voted for the guy and will vote for him again. He's just a symptom. Whatever it is that's making those people vote for him is where everyone's attention needs to be.
For the most part, the lives of people who live in cities has gotten better over the last generation. They voted for the status quo.
For the most part, the lives of people who don't live in cities has not gotten better over the last generation, and they voted for change.
These differences are structural, and I don't think anybody knows how to make them better. You can tell people to give up their current lifestyle and move somewhere else with more opportunity and a completely different lifestyle, but that's a really hard sell.
I think that some problems which caused voting for Trump are much harder to fix with Trump in the White House.
Some other problems can, unfortunately, be fixed (only) over a long run - e.g. an opinion that "America is primarily for whites".
I find it perplexing that the parent comment so confidently assumes that Trump will not be re-elected at the same time.
I mean, if I voted for Trump comments like these would make me want to vote for him again even more.