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The nightmare interpretation of Tuesday's U.S. election result is that half of America decided to inaugurate a regressive, sexist white nationalist empire. The more generous and more likely interpretation is that this was a protest vote — a protest vote of such force and intensity that American voters were even willing to register it with a candidate with such obvious character flaws.

But against what were they rebelling? Plenty of American liberals are wondering this weekend whether they themselves played a role in making the Trump presidency possible. Below, the National Post's Tristin Hopper sums up the main arguments.

Calling everything racist all the time

Plenty of big names spoke at the Democratic convention in July, and virtually every one of them has recently been the subject of a protest, a hashtag or an editorial calling them racist. Meryl Streep got it in February for serving on the all-white jury of the Berlin International Film Festival. Bill Clinton has been shouted down by Black Lives Matter protesters for his 1994 crime bill. Even Lena Dunham, who threatened to move to Canada if Trump won, faced a Twitter backlash in September for Tweeting, "An uncool thought to have: 'is that guy walking in the dark behind me a rapist? Never mind, he's Asian.'" A clear majority of Americans still believe that prejudice against ethnic minorities is a problem that needs to be fixed, but the nitpicking over every perceived case of bias may have started to annoy people. Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane, no fan of Trump, wrote on Election Night that "it can be argued that the Left expended so much energy over the last several years being outraged over verbal missteps, accidental innuendo, 'tasteless' tweets ... that when the REAL threat to equality emerged, we'd cried wolf too many times."

The list continues at http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/wed-cried-wolf-too-many-times-eight-ways-liberals-can-blame-themselves-for-president-donald-trump

Liberals, read 'em and weep.

The left made the word 'racist' obsolete with their constant whining.

I believe the number one reason for Hillary to get her butt handed to her was, drum roll,....Hillary..!

Then coming in a very close second was the liberal media.

Quote from: Bronx on November 14, 2016, 09:36:44 AM
I believe the number one reason for Hillary to get her butt handed to her was, drum roll,....Hillary..!

Then coming in a very close second was the liberal media.

Ten million less Democrat voters for Hill-O-Lies than for the Eightball Obama.

Possibly she is correct that her email scandal hurt her in the final days of the campaign, if not about the blame being on Comey. She owns that whole thing because without the unutterably stupid decision to run a private email server for her official duties, neither Comey nor any statements he could make are factors.

To be fair, according to Mark Levin, voter totals for Republicans have remained flat over the last twelve years and voters for Democrats have declined.

It wasn't greater turnout by Trump supporters that won the election for him, it was largely poor turnout by Democrats - especially in swing states.

The obscene spectacle that the Democrat Convention became in how they all but rode Sanders out on a rail, no doubt cost the 'Crats a ton of voters in itself.

Bottom line is that this election proved the old truism which is that the candidate and party which make the least number of major blunders wins.

Both Trump and Hill-O-Lies ran as angry, disagreeable candidates without much of an optimistic message or positive, friendly tone. Even though Hill-O-Lies tried to reinvent herself as the "nice" candidate, her pointlessly self-indulgent  "basket of deplorables" comment is roughly equivalent to Romney's  "47%" and "veto the Dream Act" comments.

Although Trump was Trump, he was perceived as being more honest.

Hill-O-Lies was never able to turn around her overwhelming image as a dishonest, conniving, elitist. Her refusal to do press conferences for months on end was her lame attempt to counter the fact that the more she appeared in public, the lower her approval rating went. The cure for that was to actually display something resembling humility and character but asking that of a Clinton is like asking an elephant to ice-skate.

Quote from: Late-For-Lunch on November 14, 2016, 09:52:11 AM
Ten million less Democrat voters for Hill-O-Lies than for the Eightball Obama.

Possibly she is correct that her email scandal hurt her in the final days of the campaign, if not about the blame being on Comey. She owns that whole thing because without the unutterably stupid decision to run a private email server for her official duties, neither Comey nor any statements he could make are factors.

To be fair, according to Mark Levin, voter totals for Republicans have remained flat over the last twelve years and voters for Democrats have declined.

It wasn't greater turnout by Trump supporters that won the election for him, it was largely poor turnout by Democrats - especially in swing states.

The obscene spectacle that the Democrat Convention became in how they all but rode Sanders out on a rail, no doubt cost the 'Crats a ton of voters in itself.

Bottom line is that this election proved the old truism which is that the candidate and party which make the least number of major blunders wins.

Both Trump and Hill-O-Lies ran as angry, disagreeable candidates without much of an optimistic message or positive, friendly tone. Even though Hill-O-Lies tried to reinvent herself as the "nice" candidate, her pointlessly self-indulgent  "basket of deplorables" comment is roughly equivalent to Romney's  "47%" and "veto the Dream Act" comments.

Although Trump was Trump, he was perceived as being more honest.

Hill-O-Lies was never able to turn around her overwhelming image as a dishonest, conniving, elitist. Her refusal to do press conferences for months on end was her lame attempt to counter the fact that the more she appeared in public, the lower her approval rating went. The cure for that was to actually display something resembling humility and character but asking that of a Clinton is like asking an elephant to ice-skate.

Good job of explaining what made Hillary a terrible candidate. I would add one more thing. As she had to get out more her screeching reminded folks they did not want to listen to that for four years.

Quote from: supsalemgr on November 14, 2016, 11:06:30 AM
Good job of explaining what made Hillary a terrible candidate. I would add one more thing. As she had to get out more her screeching reminded folks they did not want to listen to that for four years.

That and the scandal after scandal reminded older voters the Bill Clinton administration was nothing near what it was hyped to be.