And that's not counting the hard problems, the socio-economic problems.
Yes, there's plenty of racism, misogyny, and xenophobia all across the United States, including among those low-income rural white voters in Pennsylvania who voted for Obama in 2008 and flipped to Trump this year. Trump personally has a history of trafficking in such vile attitudes, and his campaign certainly did. Everyone must fight them whenever and wherever they appear, and they will be a central target--along with his militarism, imperialism and authoritarianism--of left opposition to the Trump administration.
But those attitudes existed in western Pennsylvania and the rest of the country in 2008 and 2012, too. Why were there five million fewer votes for Clinton this year than Obama in 2012? Why did over 90% of counties that voted for Obama either in 2008 or 2012, and one third who voted for him in both elections, vote for Trump this year? Six states flipped from Obama to Trump. Is the only salient fact about this Obama-Trump voting bloc that it's racist?
Trump got a whole 1% more of the white vote than Romney. Why did Hillary get a lower share of African-American (-7% ) and Latino ( -6% ) votes than Obama did in 2012, while Trump got a higher share of both ( +2% ) than did Romney? Most importantly, why did 45% of the electorate stay home?
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