Even when coastal elites talk to rust belt Trump voters, they still don't get it

John Daniel Davidson:

One Year Later, Coastal Elites Still Don’t Understand Why Voters Turned To Trump

A year ago this week I drove through Ohio and Pennsylvania talking to people about the election. It wasn’t hard to see why many of them wanted Trump.

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Lost in all of this are the people across the Midwest who actually voted for Trump. They had their reasons, some of them good and some of them terrible. But a common theme was a seething discontent with the status quo, and not just the political establishment of the two major parties but also the media, which many people told me was part of the problem.
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What he found was there was no interest in compromising with Democrats with this group.  They are fed up with them and with the media which backs them.  The media continues to destroy its credibility with its hatred of Trump and worse its hatred of those who voted for Trump.  This is a real problem for Democrats who had hoped to get these voters to come back to their party.  It looks like it is not going to happen anytime soon.