This is not accurate. He won because Hillary Clinton was less attractive to the traditional Democratic base of urban, minorities, and more educated voters. Many of the former Obama voters
abstained because they didn't want the responsibility
when Clinton won. This is widely understood now.
Personally, I wound up taking the higher road because abstaining is not the action of a responsible voter. When the choice is poopoo or dookie, one must be a big boy and do what he has to do. Lucky for me, the lame duck didn't win and I don't have to claim today's embarrassing buffoon. It's win/win for me.
Absolutely not.
Trump won because after eight years of whipping the constituency into a mindless mob of hate by the GOP (Tea Partiers) and Fox News over largely nothing, all it took was for somebody to come along and start tossing out leashes. He was elected on "Make America Great Again," "Build That Wall," "Lock Her Up," and "Drain the Swamp." Well, he tried to pass the Wall of to Mexico, he declared that he wasn't interested in even investigating Clinton, and he populated the swamp with those who created it. The fact that he flipped on all of it in quick fashion and that his enthusiastic mob merely shrugged, tells us that the constituency merely liked that somebody was thumbing his nose at all the things that they had been groomed to hate. Obama? The Donald will say something snide for us. Clinton? The Donald will say something snide for us. Black Lives Matter? The Donald will say something snide for us. Global Warming? The Donald will say something snide for us. Feminism? The Donald will say something snide for us. This is why his immature and highly unstatesman-like Tweets bring you all such joy. YOu all actually enjoy how stupid he looks making fun of Rubio still. The truth is that conservatives had spent so many years being told to hate everything and anything that they abandoned their supposed values last year and elected an anti-thesis with great jubilation (even as the GOP begged conservatives not to). Even military POWs was a subject for ridicule.
Entering the White House without an agenda is exactly why he has the worst "first 100 days" on record. It's exactly why he had no real plan to repeal Obamacare and merely borrowed off of the GOP's rhetoric (turned out that even they didn't have plan.)
And this is why you all elected him.