This @maggieNYT story from 2016 (I just tweeted hed before) really excellently captures something that helped Trump: There were reasons for moderate voters to think he'd buck the GOP's social conservatives.https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/23/us/politics/donald-trump-gay-rights.html …
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Bullshit, it was completely obvious. He was a cruel racist asshole before he got elected. Ask the Central Park 5. Ask the women who's pussy he grabbed. There was no chance he would be moderate.
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Trump won b/c he outperformed the GOP average among non college educated whites and b/c the Democratic coalition splinted to where the third party vote grew to 6% instead of a more tolerable 3%-4%.
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I think it was obvious in 2016 that Trump had no true ideology outside of racism, xenophobia, misogyny, and general bigotry, and thinking this didn't include anti-LGBTQ+ bigotry was pure wishful thinking.
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I know. Why any in the LGBTQ population or POC or women or Jews thought he gave a FF about them is one of those things I'll never understand.
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I must disagree...it was obvious. I even remember telling friends that "you gotta dance with the base that brought you".
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This is the media giving itself a pass again for their garbage 2016 takes. The idea that no one saw this coming when virtually everyone who voted for Clinton saw all of this coming is bullshit.
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Uh, this was actually super obvious at the time. Where were you?????
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I deserve to be smacked for that very wrong take, but do note I conceded its wrongness a few weeks later:http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/03/trump-poses-unprecedented-threat-to-democracy.html …
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