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2016 Postmortem

TwilightZone

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11. Conscious and subconscious biases work their way into many of our decisions.

Reply to Fast Walker 52 (Reply #6)

Thu Dec 8, 2016, 04:48 PM

Dec 2016

I think some of them may honestly believe that they voted for him for his economic message and will insist so, but the economic message he was selling was almost entirely based on bigotry and fear.

It's difficult to separate the two. I don't think they're all racist and/or sexist, but they voted for someone who was quite clearly both and a pathological liar, to boot. They accepted those traits in their preferred choice, even if the voters themselves don't share those traits to the same degree.

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A big question: did Trump's racism and demagoguery ultimately help him or hurt him? [View all] Fast Walker 52 Dec 2016 OP

WOW - trick question? Laf.La.Dem. Dec 2016 #1

sort of-- I had a feeling about the answer but was wondering what others thought Fast Walker 52 Dec 2016 #5

As I've said in a few threads, exit polls showed him winning on terrorism and immigration. TwilightZone Dec 2016 #2

Yes, I agree. I wonder if when these people said they liked his economic message, they either Fast Walker 52 Dec 2016 #6

Conscious and subconscious biases work their way into many of our decisions. TwilightZone Dec 2016 #11

This treestar Dec 2016 #16

Agreed. TwilightZone Dec 2016 #17

Trumps non-PC comments helped him because they diverted Hillary from talking about jobs Dems to Win Dec 2016 #3

makes sense, and scary it worked. Did he do it on purpose because he's so smart, or it just worked Fast Walker 52 Dec 2016 #7

Trump is a Reality TV Master. A master of persuasion. Dems to Win Dec 2016 #9

yes, but it also helps that he can lie so easily Fast Walker 52 Dec 2016 #10

And, yet, everyone knew he was a liar. TwilightZone Dec 2016 #12

we all knew that, very well Fast Walker 52 Dec 2016 #13

Yeah, that's possible. TwilightZone Dec 2016 #14

It was central to his campaign BainsBane Dec 2016 #4

Yes, it's clear that he didn't win SIMPLY because he had a good non-racist economic message Fast Walker 52 Dec 2016 #8

kick for a few more votes Fast Walker 52 Dec 2016 #15