2016 Postmortem

But it’s not so much a matter of being gullible, it’s more a matter of fear and ignorance, common to most Trump voters.

An unwarranted fear of change, diversity, and dissent.

An unwarranted fear of immigrants, of losing one’s job, of those perceived to be ‘different.’

And it’s the ignorance common to most Trump voters as to what constitutes sound, responsible governance, such as ignorance of the fact that failed conservative economic policy cannot ‘bring back jobs.’

Last, most Trump voters fell prey to the ignorant, wrongheaded notion of ‘elites’ and that government had ‘forgotten them,’ when in fact nothing could be further from the truth.

The fact is that the people and the government are one in the same, the people are alone responsible for the good – or bad – government they get; the disconnect from government most Trump supporters wrongfully perceived was not the fault of government but, the consequence of their ignorance, fear, and apathy.