The Most Thoughtful Human Story of the Election I’ve Read: he told me this wasn’t about democrats and republicans. it was about bringing down the establishment. and clinton embodied the establishment. he didn’t like trump, but said we needed an outsider. he thought clinton was far more flawed than trump.
he told me nobody in the media got it. he didn’t care about any polls. he said there were millions like him who were so angry at the path we were on that they would put anyone in the office to blow it all up. he said he would bet his life savings on a trump win (but he doesn’t gamble).
i tried to convince him how wrong he was. i appealed in every way i could. his mind was made up. he believed he was doing the best thing for the country.
people like my dad elected trump president. of course there is the alt right and more whackjobs who voted for trump, but trump only won because he struck a chord with the mainstream. he got people like my dad to vote for him — good people who believed they did the right thing by voting for him.
my wife was crying tonight over this election. it felt like the biggest failure of america we’ve ever experienced. we talked about how to we discuss this election with our kids tomorrow. our 7-year-old is very curious.
he told me nobody in the media got it. he didn’t care about any polls. he said there were millions like him who were so angry at the path we were on that they would put anyone in the office to blow it all up. he said he would bet his life savings on a trump win (but he doesn’t gamble).
i tried to convince him how wrong he was. i appealed in every way i could. his mind was made up. he believed he was doing the best thing for the country.
people like my dad elected trump president. of course there is the alt right and more whackjobs who voted for trump, but trump only won because he struck a chord with the mainstream. he got people like my dad to vote for him — good people who believed they did the right thing by voting for him.
my wife was crying tonight over this election. it felt like the biggest failure of america we’ve ever experienced. we talked about how to we discuss this election with our kids tomorrow. our 7-year-old is very curious.