At Bloomberg View Clive Crook neatly summarizes the state of American politics:
There are two main theories of Trump’s support. One is that a large minority of Americans — 40 percent, give or take — are racist idiots. This theory is at least tacitly endorsed by the Democratic Party and the mainstream liberal media. The other is that a large majority of this large minority are good citizens with intelligible and legitimate opinions, who so resent being regarded as racist idiots that they’ll back Trump almost regardless. They may not admire the man, but he’s on their side, he vents their frustration, he afflicts the people who think so little of them — and that’s good enough.
The former group are presently deploying the strategy of continuing the beatings until morale improves. I can only concluded that they believe that by mobilizing large numbers of non-existent voters they can prevail. Maybe time is on their side. I suspect that’s probably how it looks from California.
“They may not admire the man, but he’s on their side, he vents their frustration, he afflicts the people who think so little of them — and that’s good enough.”
Never forget this, on the fourth of November, there were only two options.
Sitting here in the Golden State, my perspective is that Californians are generally out of touch with the rest of the country. An interesting array of individuals do not want to wait and back a movement for the state to succeed from the United States. As Groucho Mark said:
“I don’t want to belong to any club that would accept me as one of its members.†Not sure the ‘blue state’ progressives will have the patience to wait it out notwithstanding a paternal Democratic Party plea to stay aligned with them.
I wish we were more out of touch with California than we are. Since many TV programs continue to be produced in Southern California and many national news media have substantial organizations there, it’s over-covered if anything. Everything that happens in California is treated as though it’s of crucial interest to the rest of the country. Something like New York and for the same reasons.
But the rural states control the electoral college.