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In reply to the discussion: How the extreme left gave us Nixon, Bush and now Trump [View all]vi5
(13,305 posts)...why I see "leftists" cost us the election but never mention the various demographics whose lives will more than anyone else be made worse by Trump who voted for him and also cost us the election.
Why no talk of the fact that 30% of Jewish voters voted for an anti-semite?
Why no talk of the fact that over 40% of women voted for a misogynist?
Why no talk of the fact that 30% of latino voters voted for a racist?
It just always confuses the hell out of me why there is this perception that "leftists" owe the Democratic party their vote but those large swatches of other demographics don't? Especially since most of those leftists just didn't vote or voted 3rd party, but large segments of those other groups actually physically went in and cast their votes FOR Trump.
Can someone explain that to me and why it is not worse?
Unless someone can show me some kind of data point that shows that 30-40% of self identified "leftists" actually voted FOR Trump, then I'd like to see some of this blame get spread around a bit more to these other groups who by the standard that everyone seems to love throwing around should have voted for Clinton as well.
The way I see it, unless you are an African American voter, there's plenty of blame to go around.