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Lessons learnt: smugness gets you nowhere.

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Exploiting people's fears gets you everywhere.

Trump is incredibly smug. And Hillary's campaign spent 90% of its effort drumming up fear about Trump.

It's not so simple.

Also drumming up fear about Trump supporters.

Deplorable or not, consistently insulting large swathes of your voters is ill-advised.

Trump consistently insulted large swaths of voters.

Again: it's not so simple.

My opinion here, but I think what made the difference was the media insulting the people for Hillary (or Bernie). Trump's comments came from mostly him.

It must have been that the populace took it differently?

>Trump consistently insulted large swaths of voters.

Trump only insulted criminals who rape women and children trying to cross the border illegally (stats said 1 in 4 women were raped trying to cross the border).

It was the constant media rhetoric that made me really question the true reality. So, I went to look for myself. Trump had an enormous number of people looking at him. I didn't know what they were thinking, but it was interesting. Hillary was having famous people speak for her but her numbers seemed to be tiny. Again, just from my perspective.

> but her numbers seemed to be tiny.

What does this mean? She won the popular vote, so her numbers were definitely not tiny.

She also has 10.8 million Twitter followers, which is less than Trump but by no means tiny.

Please stop dismissing other people's real concerns. The country is divided exactly because some are dismissing other's concerns. You are still doing it.

They are not real concerns. Newt Gingrich said it the best - this election was about "feels over reals".

Where did I dismiss anybody's fears? Some fears were legitimate. Some weren't. But exploiting and stoking those fears for political gain is disgusting to me.

A bad narrative beats no narrative.

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