Some want kowtowing to a minority of people who refused to vote for clinton.

[Jim Lane]

66. That's far too simplistic.

Basically, Trump's voters were Republicans and Clinton's were Democrats (in both cases, including self-identified independents with a strong party lean). I haven't seen any hard data, but I'm sure the vast majority of people voted for the same party they had voted for in 2012. That would include a lot of anti-immigration voters supporting Trump, because they've been voting Republican for years now. Nevertheless, you can't just say "anti-immigration" and explain more than 60 million individual choices.

Most notably, there were Obama-Trump voters. They're worth paying attention to. Just today, Politico had a valuable article: "Poll: Obama-Trump voters drifting away from the president". Key excerpts:

Sixteen percent of these Obama-Trump voters said they regretted their choice in last year's election — a small but significant number that again outpaces the 6 percent of all Trump voters who regret voting for him.

. . . .

Very few Romney-Clinton voters want do-overs on their 2016 votes. Only 3 percent said they regretted their vote — far less than the 16 percent of Obama-Trump voters who said the same.

I certainly don't think we should appeal to Trump voters by trying to outdo him in racism (or misogyny or homophobia/transphobia), but we don't need to win over all of them. A big chunk are not hard-core bigots.

As for the role of the media, I was supporting Bernie Sanders in the primary. You don't have to tell me about media bias. Bernie ran a substantive, issue-oriented campaign, but the corporate media largely acted as if he didn't exist.