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I'm not asking if you feel i was right or wrong.
It's sad, but our choices often come down to the "less awful". I voted Trump in 2016, not because I didn't think he was a scummy conman, but because I estimated Hillary to be just as psychotic and corrupt. The difference being that Hillary might be smooth enough to get away with it, while Trump was such a buffoon he would be caught.
Bigotry runs deep in this country. Fox Noise has been nurturing a bigot cadre for years. Without the boost from Bush's "deregulation" ideology blowing up the economy, Obama probably would not have had a chance. His winning put the racists into overdrive. I have heard questions about both George Romney (born of US parents in Mexico) and John McCain (born of US parents in Panama Canal Zone) being qualified as native born USians, but I have never seen the persistent push I saw from the birthers. They could not stand the idea of a POTUS who was not white. As offered before, I think Trump's dalliance with the birthers was market research, to see if an openly bigoted campaign could get traction.
A woman of color? Not a chance. A Jew? Doubt it. Gay man? Not a chance.
I still like Evan Bayh, but he's nearly 70. But who can stand up to the bigoted blast coming from Sean Hannity's pie hole?
My sense is Trump is not an aberration. It has been a 40 year long project, that brought us here. My hunch is nothing can be done. We need to wait for this bigoted blast to burn itself out, because facts and logic are not valued. When people overcome bigotry, we can give reason, and democracy, another try.
Steve
