Not "Our Guy"
Trump had captured the disenfranchised middle class through a populist message. He campaigned hard against a woman that even Democrats didn’t fully trust. The Democrats played identity politics, created division and slandered half the country as deplorable. I believed he could win on a populist message that resonated with middle Americans. My wife thought I was crazy for suggesting he would win (other people saw this also). The media predicted he wouldn’t win. The polls didn’t reflect it. It became a joke; “Trump will never become president.” The public was engineered to believe he had a snowball’s chance in hell to win the presidency. I don’t believe this was a fluke. I believe this surprise win that “shocked the nation” was a well-conceived plan to broadly demonize what little American values we had as archaic, hateful and regressive. Why? Hillary, as it stood in 2016, was unpalatable to most Americans and unelectable. She was involved in a string of investigation