Posted on 11/09/2016 4:32:00 AM PST by monkapotamus
Donald John Trump was elected the 45th president of the United States on Tuesday in a stunning culmination of an explosive, populist and polarizing campaign that took relentless aim at the institutions and long-held ideals of American democracy.
The surprise outcome, defying late polls that showed Hillary Clinton with a modest but persistent edge, threatened convulsions throughout the country and the world, where skeptics had watched with alarm as Mr. Trump’s unvarnished overtures to disillusioned voters took hold.
The triumph for Mr. Trump, 70, a real estate developer-turned-reality television star with no government experience, was a powerful rejection of the establishment forces that had assembled against him, from the world of business to government, and the consensus they had forged on everything from trade to immigration.
The results amounted to a repudiation, not only of Mrs. Clinton, but of President Obama, whose legacy is suddenly imperiled. And it was a decisive demonstration of power by a largely overlooked coalition of mostly blue-collar white and working-class voters who felt that the promise of the United States had slipped their grasp amid decades of globalization and multiculturalism.
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They're whole strategy was... swamp. Time to drain it!
And they persist is calling us "ragtag". Blind elitism.
You mean like “took relentless aim at the institutions and long-held ideals of American democracy.”
I know what you mean, though.
Wow, that was close.
And we didn’t get a majority of the popular vote, either.
Still, as a previous president said, “Elections have consequences.” Hopefully this one will have LOTS of consequences.
> polarizing campaign that took relentless aim at the institutions and long-held ideals of American democracy.
All the crap there is room to print.
The media still doesn’t get it, they were rejected as much as the political establishment. They are hated and loathed just as much if not more for their pusillanimous and arrogant behavior.
The Sunday morning talk shows should be a gas!
I refused to watch any of this last night. But, before I went to bed, I got on my knees and prayed for Trump and our country (getting down was bad enough, getting up was worse). : )
I was surprised at how strong my prayers were; how fervent. I begged God not to punish us for turning our backs on Him as a nation, but to give us one more chance.
I took a chance this morning and looked at FR before going to work. I was in tears. Thank God. I fell to my knees again in gratitude. Praise Him. I don’t believe in asking God for favors, but this is the future of the nation. I thought it was worth the prayer (and my knees).
It pains me to see those light blue counties in the western North Carolina Blue Ridge, islands of budding Stalinism in an ocean of sane mountain people who just want to be left alone to live their lives.
The northernmost is Watauga County, home of Appalachian State University. At least it’s contained.
The southernmost is Asheville, and it’s metastasized, with surrounding counties beginning to fade from deep red to pink.
In the Carolinas, that blue line roughly parallels I-95. It was there long before any urbanization occurred, back to the 18th century, really. It’s mostly small towns still, though some have more recently morphed into suburbs with the northern influx. It’s the old plantation belt, mostly rural and agricultural, but quite black. Some counties are over 50%.
I expect interstates mostly follow the easiest route as did wagon trains, for example “the Whisky trail” that brought Scots Irish from ports in the North south to the end of the Appalachians and train tracks that went from the North around the end of the Appalachians and the west and northwest.
The coastal plain of NC and SC is pretty flat. Ease of acquiring right of way and skirting impediments like small town downtowns and swamps likely dictated the final path of I-95 more than anything else.
The Old Wagon Road into northwestern NC from PA followed indian trails, which themselves followed animal paths. Hilly to occasionally mountainous country.
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