I Was Wrong about Trump Voters – Michael Baharaeen – Medium

No mention of an unappealing candidate or Russia hacking, I am surprised by that but the rest of the article is all superfluous conjecture based on the subconscious. Give me a break. The ideology of the Left today mirrors Communism. If you don't think like us then you are the enemy is the narrative and that is the message that turned off the Trump voters. If you don't think like us then you are ignorant and not as refined as us, the enlightened. And the reason the Left will not win the Trump voters back for the 2020 election is because of the #Resist Movement. It has already played out on a ball field in D.C., and last night night in Georgia. Trump voters have turned off the MSM and Hollywood. The #MSM narrative has a smaller and smaller audience which coincides with the 4 Special Elections where Democrats are winning nowhere.

Capt Dwayne Conyers I don't know if I agree with these surveys. It really doesn't capture all the reasons why people voted for Trump. I voted for him because he was an outsider and I wanted something different in Washington, instead of the same politicians I see year after year. That's me though - I don't know how many would agree with my reason!

The author is making the same mistake I've seen from almost everyone on the left who is trying to find someone to blame for "Hillary's loss". The fault does not lie in the Trump voters from flyover states. The fault lies in a central flaw to the messaging used by the Democrat party. Rather than a party of inclusion they've become the party of virtue and virtue signaling. When your message is look at us, we're the good guys. You are implying that everyone who disagrees with you (on any point) is a bad guy (or as Hillary put it a racist, misogynist, poorly educated, basket of deplorables). They key point is that it wasn't just a Hillary loss. In 2016, the Democrats lost nearly every single political race in the country. They lost the Presidency, Governorships, Senate and House seats, county commissions, etc. it was an across the board rout. Since November, the Democrats have lost four special elections, despite throwing hundreds of millions of dollars behind their candidates and the active participation of the main stream media behind their candidates. A warning to Democrats is that if they don't give up their divisive rhetoric they might just go the way of the Federalists, the Jeffersonians, and the Whig's.