Flagpole wrote:
1) A flat out racist.
2) Stupid as can be.
What an ignorant false dichotomy this is.
How many Trump supporters have you talked to face to face? Many are not "flat out racist" or "stupid as can be," although I know you consider anyone beneath the great, honorable, and extremely good looking Flagpole to be utterly lacking in intellectual abilities.
There are many people who are not educated but work hard for an honest living. Lately, they've been hearing about things like "white privilege,""black lives matter," and toxic masculinity. And they may stop to think "well hey now, I've worked hard all my life and now someone with a blog in NYC is saying it's just cause I'm a white male? " or they might think "well shouldn't all lives matter?" The problem is that these issues are incredibly subtle and require intellectual conversation and thought. It's difficult for the everyday person to differentiate some of these issues that, in all honesty, comprise of larger parts of extremely complex socio-economic issues that high level academics have been debating for years. Combine that economic pressures left over from 2008, advances in technology that are marginalized non-skilled labor, and a shift in American demographic make up (in which white people will be less than 50% of Americans by 2050 I believe) it's really not hard to understand why someone would want to vote for Trump.
Obama himself said at his last farewell address that if Democrats want to change this mess then you've got to go out there and talk to people and understand them, and level with them, and empathize with them. You can't just lob around these accusations of "flat out racist." But we instead what we have is an internet Civil War led by General Flagpole McClellan.