Safe to say that most HRC supporters are ignorant to these other areas of concern. Look it up. There are numerous videos of street interviews during exit polls where HRC voters literally had no idea she voted for the Iraq war, among other things. There are also a lot of her supporters who do so simply based on the fact that she's a woman. Independent polling (that I've seen) is showing that HRC does not have their majority support. I've seen polls where 80% of 20,000+ people said they were NeverHillary. So while I somewhat agree that her supporters "don't care," I think it goes further than that.
Trump's rise is because he was anti-PC, not despite it. Trump has a massive following because "He says what everyone's thinking but are just too afraid to say themselves."
I find it ironic that you point a finger at the Left when blaming extremism within parties, yet your party nominated the most extreme nationalist/populist candidate in history. And if it wasn't for the fact that he was running against Hillary-fucking-Clinton, he would get absolutely destroyed in the general election. Hell, people hate HRC and Trump still might get destroyed.
Here's the thing ... the GOP has nobody to blame but themselves. They force their candidates to unelectable positions in the primaries that Democrats use to beat them over the head with during the general election cycle.
The prosperous years of Bill Clinton were followed by the chaotic years of W., who not only invaded a Iraq for no legitimate reason following 911, but then he inserted Paul Bremer as the Presidential Envoy there -- a man who had never been to the Middle East, Didn't speak Arabic, and was utterly ill qualified to lead the effort. He quickly dismantled the government and left all the human services -- water, trash collection, electricity, etc. -- unattended. He sent the Iraqi army packing, instead of using them as a security force to keep the peace. The result was a total clusterfuck, and a population full of unemployed, militarily trained men to fend for themselves among the other disrupted population in a country with no plan after the war. These Iraqi soldiers became the core of what is ISIS today, armed with the weapons they took with them and all the proof they needed about how the United States jacked up their country. Any mistake Hillary may or may not have made during her political career pales in comparrison to W.'s collosal fuckups. This is the foreign policy track record the republicans had the last time they were entrusted with the presidency. On top of that, the economy tanked on W.'s watch in incredible fashion. Republicans don't have a track record of success at home anymore than they do overseas.
After W. they ran warmonger McCain who wanted to double down on these problems created under Bush. To make matters worse, he chose as his running mate the world's stupidest woman. Next, they put up moderate Romney who alienated half of the country with one idiotic statement (47%) trying to appeal to Republican doners, who were coincidently profiting off of the chaos that Bush created at the expense of American citizens. He said half of the country wanted noting more than to suck off the government teet. Moronic!
The Republican reasoning behind their failure to secure the White House? McCain and Romney were pussies -- too weak and not "conservative enough" to take the country by the scruff of the neck and bend them to the will of their party. And even though their own "autopsy" following the Romney defeat concluded that they needed to widen their tent, appeal to minorities and women instead of their ham fisted approach that cost them the previous two elections, they inexplicably chose the worst, most bigoted, moronic candidate in my lifetime to run in 2016 (a candidate that most of them even hate) against the most plugged in political figure in modern history. He single handedly exposed the GOP as full of shit on their "conservative principles" that were the fulcrum on which their political power had always pivoted, or so the story goes.
HRC might be hated, but when they chose someone who is hated even more ... a guy who obviously is just making shit up as he goes along and appealing to the worst qualities of our population, WTF does anyone expect? He's going to lose in a landslide in this election. The question is, what will the republican excuse be this time? "Too conservative" is out the window. For christsakes, he just gave a speech yesterday that was to the left of Hillary on trade -- the one issue in which she has been traditionally in line with the republicans on.
Instead of accepting the reality that the country has been shifting to the left for nearly 3 decades, republicans ignore the obvious and double down on policies that continue to alienate and villify victims of the policies that were put into place during the "Reagan revolution" in the early 1980s -- reduced taxes for the rich, stagnant wages for the working class, military build-up, gutting regulation, etc., etc., etc.
I share your dislike of Hillary ... a whole lot of Dems and Independents do, too ... but the Republicans have given America no choice but to vote for her because they are too dumb to get out of their own way and choose a candidate who might have appeal to people in a country that has been turning away from their ideas for the better part of three decades. People might be "ignorant" of the ins and outs of policy discussions or the workings of government, but they have a profound understanding of how their lives are going. They listen to candidates to find out which direction they want to go to improve their chances of a better life. At the end of the day, the person who talks the loudest isn't the one who people listen to ... its the one who offers a coherent direction that they can get behind. Like her or hate her, HRC has a coherent plan, and that will lead her to victory in November.
