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[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 22 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Hillary, Trump won because people were sick of the entrenched insiders like yourself. Your opinion means nothing.

[–] LukeZaz@beehaw.org 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

In part.

It can't go unacknowledged that bigotry was very involved in the outcome of 2016.

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago

Certainly. It was a myriad of complexities.

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 3 points 4 days ago

Yeah. When voters were given a choice between maintaining the status quo versus fascism, voters couldn't tell the difference until after fascism was implemented.