Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Former Republican Joe Walsh Crushes Trump, Admits His Mistakes" video.

  1. I'm Australian but went to college in America. So I am not an outside observer who has no idea what the American people are like. Months before the election I told people here that Trump was going to win. Nobody believed me. In the simplest answer: Trump didn't win, but he took advantage of the system and won where it mattered. Hilary was stupid and upset enough people in the wrong places. Those people either voted Trump or not at all and it happened in a few key states like Michigan, Ohio, Iowa, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. Here's the long explanation and I'm sorry if its long and sucks to hear. One of the great things about Democracy is that on a regular basis we get 2 options. We can re-elect people because we think they are doing a reasonable job or we can dump their butt in the gutter. When Australians are angry with the government and dump people we call it a "protest vote." To some extent protest voting is present in every election everywhere, but it manifests differently because of the different systems. In Australia we have compulsory voting so we either get a big swing to the other party OR more common these days we elect independents like we did this year. In America you have voluntary voting so you tend to see people NOT VOTE at all. The moment I believed Hilary Clinton lost was when she announced that she WASN'T going to campaign in places like Michigan because she was doing fundraisers with Wall Street bankers. I went to college in Illinois and I knew that would upset people in Michigan. I also knew it would upset people across the Mid-west and Rust Belt. Do I have intimate knowledge of people in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Iowa,... ? NO, but I knew they'd react badly to Hilary's arrogance. Who wouldn't. Another person who predicted the same result but for a slightly different reason was economic journalist Rana Foroohar. She recently said Hilary's losing moment was the 1st debate with Trump. Everyone else claimed Hilary won easily. Rana said No she lost and lost badly because of one simple topic - NAFTA. Rana's reason was Trump raised NAFTA which Bill Clinton had brought in and NAFTA is hated across the Rust Belt, because they saw NAFTA as costing them their jobs. Go listen to Rana's recent interview on the Realignment podcast here on YT. Others like Mark Blyth and Richard Wolff have also said that the Democrats have repeatedly done had also angered working class people across the Rust Belt. Look at how Biden just crushed the railway workers. The Democrats have been doing that for 40+ years. They suck up to working class people before an election and then dump them afterwards. Here's Richard and Mark talking about this during one of the Michael Brooks tribute podcasts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g1aMsDYJCc&t=3171s Hilary lost because her arrogance upset people in some key states. Similarly Trump also lost because he also upset people in some key states.
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