–*Trump managed to cobble together a unique coalition of voters: the not bright, and the far dumber than not bright.
–*Americans with nothing to lose but low unemployment, a rising stock market and rising wages and health care coverage decided to roll the dice on a tax cut that might get them a new 16 inch television.
–*Middle-class white Americans made it loud and clear that they are tired of nobody listening to them mistakenly blame their problems on immigrants.
–*Americans are tired of the elites looking down at them … so here, elites, this tax cut should teach you a thing or two.
–*Americans in the middle class with stagnant wages are hurting. But rather than a minimum wage increase, they’d really just like permission to use the “N-word” again.
–*Everybody needs somebody to harass and victimize and look down on, and Obama had given middle class whites nobody to do that to.
–*Middle class whites are concerned about the ways skyrocketing debt is going to affect their kids. That’s why they elected a guy mostly known for putting up giant buildings with enormous debt attached to them.
–*The whole, “watch me get drunk and vote for this guy” crowd is bigger than we thought.
–*The Washington and New York government and media establishments are out of touch because they spend too much time reading and analyzing and thinking.
–*Americans don’t like political dynasties. Also they don’t like authoritarian populist regim….never mind. Americans don’t know what they like.
–* … or who they are.
–* … or what they stand for.
–*”Take that, college-educated people!”
Beauty is Imperfection 