How could Secretary Clinton lose this election to Donald Trump?
The big “presidential fish” was on the hook, all the Clinton campaign had to do was reel it in. The glass ceiling was to be finally broken, and the shattered pieces of glass would land on the Republicans and cut them up like shrapnel from a grenade.
Maybe Clinton had the support of the entertainment stars, but Trump had the support of the disenfranchised blue collar worker from the Midwest, and like it or not, that’s the truth.
The whole country should realize that people in the Midwest are hurting. They lost their jobs because of bad trade deals, and what were once proud mill towns. have now been decimated by poverty and a opioid crisis. They are always one paycheck from going under.
When one of these voters go to the voting booth, they don’t care about Clinton’s emails, or Trump University. They just vote for the candidate who they believe is going to help them get back on their feet.
Trump was different, he told these people that “they had been forgotten, and he would not forget them.” When your living on the bottom line, that is music to your ears. And while Trump was courting these Midwesterners, the coastal elitists mocked, and shunned them. On SNL, Tom Hanks did a skit degrading a Trump voter, the elitist New York City crowd loved it.
Whenever these disenfranchised Midwesterners did speak up, the elitist media labeled them as White Trash, and then they were told to go back to their shacks and stay there.
Vice President-elect Pence went to the Broadway musical “Hamilton” and he was insulted by the crowd and actors. Pence was the governor of Indiana before this election. Indiana is in the heart of the Midwest, so this only reinforces the Midwest’s conclusion on how they think the elitist New York City people feel about them. One of their own have now been slapped in the face, and come 2020 when they go to the voting booth, they won’t forget it.
Maybe in the next four years these elitists could ask Midwesterners what their fears, and hopes are. But that would actually involve listening to these people, not lecturing them. And I don’t think these elitists have the heart to do that.
David Kearney
Shelburne