People have joked since that it felt as though we had been pushed into another reality's timeline.
I sympathize with such thoughts.
#BlackTuesday
It becomes even more stark when you actually say any of it out loud.
It's not even just that it feels wrong, but it looks and sounds wrong too.
All of it.
All Tuesday there were news reports of long lines of people, mostly white, who were waiting hours to vote.
It was not within the realms of my imagination to assume that they would wait to vote for him.
Except there was nothing to be proud of, not even close.
Though we now know Russia tilted this election it does not erase white guilt in 2016 and never will.
Locating a white woman living in a state like Missouri who voted for Clinton would be a challenge in some counties, but finding a white male who did?
Good luck.
Their attempts to re-write history even as it happens is dangerous and mortifying.
Bernie Sanders & Jon Stewart we're the first white defenders to publicly emerge.
His entire campaign (and career), had been based upon the idea of economic disparity being the overriding concern of voters.
Which they were. Bernie Sanders got a lot wrong in 2015 & 2016, a fact that no one is taking about.
1. Donald Trump won fairly.
2. He won because of an uprising of voters tired of the economic disparity eating up their communities, who felt alienated by Democrats and distrustful of Clinton.
Throughout the Primary, Sanders had argued Clinton was a weak candidate.
She was corrupt. She was weak. She made bad decisions. At one point he went so far as to claim that she was not qualified to be President.
It surprised no one when Donald Trump borrowed Sanders' tactics.
But this is literally fake news, & this tactic straight out of Trump's playbook.
In fact, the data shows that voters in the lowest income brackets supported Clinton and the Democrats.
1. Donald Trump had a finely tuned set of economic plans that he talked about regularly and we're widely discussed by him and his surrogates across a wide spectrum of media outlets.
3. That the core of Trump's supporters are economically challenged or on the brink of being so.
From building a wall at the US/Mexican border to a Muslim travel ban to
I watched hundreds of Trump speeches and the exploitation of racial tensions was always the central goal, if not theme, w/o exception.