Politics, Motherhood, and Politics

A Child's Perspective on the Election: "Why did people vote for Donald Trump if he makes fun of people?"  My answer: "I don't know."

Secret Voters: No Justification For the last week, I, like many others who voted for Hillary Clinton, am wondering how Donald Trump, who ran a presidential campaign based on hate, won the election. The short list includes: calling for a ban on all Muslims, quoting false crime statistics against African Americans (that even Bill O’Reilly corrected him on),  “Mexicans are rapist”, "building a wall", and never mind the backing of White Supremacist groups (the deplorables) that he received. It was not until a few weeks before the election that his campaign rejected the endorsement from the KKK through their paper, The Crusader .*  Normally, all this kind of rhetoric and the very public support of White Nationalists and Supremacists would have been political death for any candidate.  The fact that he won the primaries was a surprise, now, to win the presidency is a shock.  The main explanation seems to be that there were “secret” voters, people who were polled but di...