One Weird Trick To Lose The 2016 Election: Alienate Women

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6. Thank you, Nate Silver and thank you BlueMTexPat

Love Nate Silver!

Stunning how there are people, particularly in the media, who continue to ask what might be going on with women. Or, why (with a straight face and no sense of irony at all) "other than Trump's obvious misogyny, racism and xenophobia", he is still an unsuitable candidate?! As though those views are minor personality quirks or something. That tells us everything we need to know about how horrifically desensitized the privileged are to bigots and their victims and just how routine discrimination is in all of our lives.

Love how Nate says,"

natesilver: Yeah. Apart from the fact that Trump’s misogyny is really gross, it’s also really dumb as an electoral strategy.
... Yeah, a Machiavellian could argue that demonizing blacks or Hispanics or Muslims or gays is a winning, if incredibly cynical, electoral strategy for the GOP. That doesn’t work when you’re talking about 51 percent of the population. Furthermore, the fact that Trump doesn’t realize this suggests either that (i) he’s just making shit up as he goes along instead of being some sort of brilliant tactician; (ii) he’s a sexist down to his core and can’t help himself; or (iii) both.

I truly hope that this election is another one in which, like Obama's in 2008 and 2012, women and minorities form a coalition to vote against the banality of that evil. In those elections, 'white men' were the only demographic that Obama lost across both party lines. This time around they have found the perfect candidate in the uber-bigoted, poster boy for privilege, Trump. We will just have to keep pushing back against that status quo and defeat it again.

Thank you Nate Silver for explaining to the media what is so obvious to millions of people