The results are trickling in: Why people voted Trump, in their own words.

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67. Whatever the American people are angry at.

I did not say the anger was well-thought-out or intellectually defensible. I simply observed the fact that the American public has been solidly "wrong track", basically, since Obama was elected. And that means it is very difficult for either party to get much of a foothold to actually move the country forward. Meanwhile, as the public keeps "throwing the bums out" we are losing more and more of our wealth to multinational billionaires and other countries (especially China) that are out-educationing us, out-entrpreneuring us, and out-producing us. The more we fall behind, the more national wealth we lose to other countries and the growing gaggle of billionaire oligarchs that know no country, the angrier regular Americans will be.

We had better understand this. We won't ever return to an "FDR" level of power (a very popular President and solid majorities in Congress for a generation) until we do understand this and select candidates who will run campaigns that speak directly and viscerally to these core issues.

PLEASE look at this chart. It is the clearest possible explanation for what happened in this election.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/1669/general-mood-country.aspx