Why Donald Trump Won the Election

[@bc9402]

“You would think they’re are racists.” They aren’t? (I ask this in jest, but I used to have some frens that were very left leaning, and one of them ended their friendship with me cause I defended Latinos who voted trump. I didn’t even support trump at the time, was just defending Latinos who did.)

[@akumaking1]

Who expects the leftists to actually move out of the country?

[@crusaderpenguin5326]

Great video. I go to law school in a very liberal state. Almost all faculty and students are blatantly left-wing. One thing I notice about leftists is they have no concept that someone in their situation might vote differently than them. Many people came up to me, without asking me about my personal beliefs first, and immediately went into statements like "isn't this awful? How could all these backwards savages vote for this monster?" I have never discussed politics with them in ANY capacity. I don't even know most of my classmates that well. We've barely done anything together outside of class. They have no reason to believe that I would have voted for Harris, yet they asked me all the same in a way that presupposed my political stance. I experienced something similar in 2016, when many friends of mine at the time (we played MTG together, met at locals) just assumed out of the blue that I would agree with them, and started all discussions with that assumption. It's such a strange mindset to me. I'd never assume that a person shares my political beliefs without talking with them extensively first. I'd also never start a comment in such a disparaging way like "can you believe these backwards people..." because it will make a person either resent you or not share their true beliefs (or both). The fact that they couldn't even comprehend that someone sitting next to them might feel disenfranchised, or might be unhappy with how things were going, all because I'm supposed to be their "enlightened classmate attending a prestigious law school" is such a ridiculous assumption that no one should ever make it. People aren't a collective: I'm not going to necessarily vote for your candidate just because I'm hispanic, or just because I'm well-educated. I'm not necessarily going to hold the same values as you, even if YOU think those values are the "correct" path forward. It's an insulting view of people that treats our independent free-will/decision making as if it doesn't exist. It's why the left lost in 2016, and it's why the left lost now. EDIT: Also, I find it funny how I'm a beloved minority as long as I agree with them, but the moment I think for myself, I'm suddenly a "filthy insert-insult-here that needs to be deported." Shows you just how far that leftist "love" actually goes.

[@Pedro1136]

The left side of politics, I’m not American but it’s similar in my country, have gone to war on the normal people. That was a strategy bound to fail.

[@g-shockfan6149]

Latinx, not latinos.