Disagree all you like - you are entitled to your opinion as are all of us.
If the election were today and you were the only voter, Trump would win by a landslide. Unfortunately, there are the votes of another 90 million or so voters to consider.
I have my opinions too, but I take very seriously the opinions of the rest of the voting public too.
I try to avoid hubris and making the same insular, parochial mistaken opinion making process made by Pauline Kael with Nixon.
I won't go into specifics because a much more talented John Podhoretz already did the job for me way better than I ever could
The Actual Pauline Kael Quote—Not As Bad, and Worse:
“The clearest example of the bizarrely naive quality of hermetic liberal provincialism was attributed to the New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael almost 40 years ago, and has been discussed in right-wing circles ever since. It went something like this: “I can’t believe Nixon won. I don’t know anyone who voted for him.” Several years ago, I went on an admittedly desultory search for the original quote and was unable to locate it.
On Friday, on the New Yorker’s website, the magazine’s film editor Richard Brody offers what may be the first accurate version of the quote I’ve ever seen (I’m assuming it’s accurate because it comes from the New Yorker itself): “Pauline Kael famously commented, after the 1972 Presidential election, ‘I live in a rather special world. I only know one person who voted for Nixon. Where they are I don’t know. They’re outside my ken. But sometimes when I’m in a theater I can feel them.’”
Obviously, the paraphrase is far juicier than the original, but actually, if you think about it, the version quoted by Brody is even worse, as it indicates that Kael was actually acknowledging her provincialism (“I live in a rather special world”) and from its perch expressing her distaste for the unwashed masses with whom she sometimes had to share a movie theater. What this indicates is that, even then, liberal provincialism was as proud of its provincialism as any Babbitt.”
Moral of the story-
When it comes to political opinion making, make sure you are living in the real world, not your own personal version of Pauline Kael’s “Rather Special World” .
It helps avoid major disappointments
John Podhoretz is one of the geniuses in his own mind “conservative” (whatever the hell that means at this point) “pundits” who along with all the others like him, has done absolutely nothing to stop the descent of this country into the hell of hellacious Uniparty corruption. Cluck clucking by the sidelines, these “conservative pundits” have done absolutely not one thing to vet “0bama”, stop him and his henchpeeps and we are now teetering on the brink of the abyss.
And little John Podhoretz and his elite buddies (many of whom I used to read in “The Conservative Chronical” in the late 80s) all hate Trump because of his “tone”, his three wives, and most of all, the fact that he is not one of the elites, not carrying on the torch of the controlled opposition branch of the Uniparty, and actually wants to do things like bring back manufacturing and jobs, close the freaking borders, stop the invasion of mozlems as well as get rid of the tens of millions of illegals and stop more from coming in, cut the gov teat to slugs and cheaters, strengthen the military while cutting spending, stop the fraud/waste/abuse in gov spending, and much, much more.
Podhoretz and his ilk and clutch their pearls until their hands go numb, but their day is over, their sun is setting, and time marches on.