Posted on 01/01/2017 6:44:56 PM PST by Lorianne
If you want to know why Trump won, just look at the response to his winning. The lofty contempt for ‘low information’ Americans. The barely concealed disgust for the rednecks and cretins of ‘flyover’ America who are apparently racist and misogynistic and homophobic. The haughty sneering at the vulgar, moneyed American political system and how it has allowed a wealthy candidate to poison the little people’s mushy, malleable minds. The suggestion that American women, more than 40 per cent of whom are thought to have voted for Trump, suffer from internalised misogyny: that is, they don’t know their own minds, the poor dears. The hysterical, borderline apocalyptic claims that the world is now infernally screwed because ‘our candidate’, the good, pure person, didn’t get in.
This response to Trump’s victory reveals why Trump was victorious. Because those who do politics these days — the political establishment, the media, the academy, the celeb set — are so contemptuous of ordinary people, so hateful of the herd, so convinced that the mass of society cannot be trusted to make political decisions, and now those ordinary people have given their response to such top-down sneering and prejudice. Oh, the irony of observers denouncing Middle America as a seething hotbed of hatred even as they hatefully libel it a dumb and ugly mob. Having turned America’s ‘left behind’ into the butt of every clever East Coast joke, and the target of every handwringing newspaper article about America’s dark heart and its strange, Bible-toting inhabitants, the political and cultural establishment can’t now be surprised that so many of those people have turned around and said… well, it begins with F and ends with U.
Bkmk
Low information voters voted hillary. Don’t kid yourself.
It is the blue areas of gibmedats and high school dropouts in red states that makes crime rates measurable. If it wasn’t for democrat supporters, the murder rate in most states would be one tenth of what it is, and violent crime would be as it was in the 1950’s.
Absolutely true! Trumpet will be incredibly successful if he stays on track & AGGRESSIVE in achieving all his campaign promises, including repealing every EO of odumboshiite. I just want to see Trump kicking the sh_t out of odumboshiite & the rabid leftists every day!
Excellent post!
You're completely right.
It was so ugly watching Bush treat Kennedy like he was
some sort of royalty. I thought Bush would kneel at Kennedy's feet.
Trump won because people in small-town America got sick and tired of being governed by people who don’t even know the difference between a boy and a girl.
To the Englishmen,
Here in America we are trying to decide between using the ballet or the bullet. We are the most armed citizenry in the world and WE WILL NOT BE RULED.
Feel free to joins us if the storm comes.
Speaking of those folks, it’s really fun to read what’s being said on DUmp. Talk about “lamentations of their women” ;-) Just hilarious how they are backstabbing each other and trying to decide who is worst, Trump, us “rethugs”, of the DUmpsters who don’t toe the ideological line some way or other. The fun just never ends!
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>> the political establishment, the media, the academy, the celeb set — are so contemptuous of ordinary people
And what these sneering elitists fail to acknowledge, is their financial dependency on the ordinary man.
The political establishment is corrupt. The MSM is the Country’s greatest threat. And academia is replete with professional predators.
Yes, it had occurred to me, not in these exact terms, that the attempted, and seemingly successful, “cultural transformation” of America was the hidden issue of this campaign.
Rednecks Built America
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c66P1mCVGio
Redneck Revolution
https://soundcloud.com/daniel-levy-6/redneck-revolution-demo
And that’s why it isn’t even really liberal, at least not in the older sense. It’s illiberal.
It’s about them, not about God, is the bottom line. God is plenty generous and then some. They have short, short fuses in their faux-liberality.
The weapon that I believe is going to prevail isn’t even made of metal. It is the gospel gun. It shoots devils.
None of them are fit to live in a free society. None. They will never give up drilling holes in the boat.
what we did not know at the time, was that they effectively were birds of a feather.
It was definitely part of it. A cumulative effect, who knows exactly what was the proverbial straw on the camel’s back- it was perhaps different for different people, but the result was the same. I think the “take our country back” momentum that started with stuff like the popular revolt against Obamacare just needed a candidate to coalesce around. Trump may have seemed unlikely to many, but he was the perfect guy- someone who showed they had the balls to take on our enemies, and someone who definitely had the leadership qualities we needed.
The cure for the common candidate.
That is a rotten kind of elitism, but it might be driven from fear of being called what Hillary called Donald’s supporters, namely deplorables.
GWB would never be caught being known as a redneck. Oh no. That is not politically correct and it will never do.
Donald Trump’s likely response: Yee haw.
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