Donald Trump is the president-elect of the U.S.
This is utter madness. If we&#x27;re lucky, this wheels fall off this whole enterprise and these people are discredited before they do too much harm.<p>It&#x27;s deeply frustrating to hear so much crap analysis of what&#x27;s been going on. If we&#x27;re really honest with ourselves about what&#x27;s happening, we&#x27;re seeing a massive vote for protectionism of a particular demographics that have long enjoyed it.<p>People talk a lot about the forgotten white working class voter. And while that&#x27;s a real thing, that&#x27;s only half the story. The Trump voters are on the whole wealthier than the Clinton voters. That means there are a whole bunch of people with real money who&#x27;ve decided they can stomach the open bigotry of Trump&#x27;s campaign because they think ultimately his policies are what they want. That&#x27;s why the incumbents of the GOP largely never fled his side, no matter how obscene his personal conduct.<p>To be really blunt, Trump&#x27;s entire track record says &quot;if you&#x27;re white and wealthy, I&#x27;ve obviously got your back&quot;, and his words have said, &quot;if you&#x27;re white and struggling, it&#x27;s brown people who stand in your way&quot;. In that way, he&#x27;s managed to get an extremely energetic white vote.<p>This election will be forever remembered for just how lurid it has been. From the very beginning of the Republican primary, it&#x27;s been Trump who continually lowered the bar. God help us all if we do in fact end up with literally the least qualified Commander in Chief of American history. Going to sleep now, deeply discouraged.