I’m sorry to say I am not surprised Trump won. People of color, particularly women of color, have been saying all along the exclusionary attitudes he espouses are alive and well, but many folks didn’t listen. A lot of my white friends are waking up to realize we were never exaggerating.
When I am able, I want to find the source of a telling graphic I have been seeing on social media: Trump’s win is entirely due to the number of white people who voted for him, specifically white evangelicals. It isn’t due to the statistically negligible number of people who voted for someone other than him or Clinton. (I originally assumed those voters are to blame, but my opinion changed in the presence of new information.)
That probably means even if Sanders had won the Democratic nomination or been written in Trump would have won. Those same white people would have voted for him in all of his racist, sexist, heterosexist, classist, xenophobic glory. So please don’t add insult to injury by claiming this is due in part to not enough Democrats supporting Sanders.
The reality is harsh: the majority of this country supports a man who is openly racist, denigrates women, does not care about the middle class or the poor, and hates immigrants.
If you voted for that, shame on you.
If you voted for that and claim to care about my life, I do not and cannot trust you. This isn’t about merely disagreeing about politics. This is about disagreeing over whether certain people, people like ME, have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Your vote in support of Trump says I do not have those rights in your mind. That is the stuff enemies are made of.