I am very tempted to borrow the thread title and set up an "Unhypnotise Remainer Supporters".
This is because both disappointed Remainers and dissappointed Clintonites seem equally
determined to ignore the realities as to why their side lost the vote, instead assigning largely
derogatory motives to the other side while ignoring what the voters for the other side said.
In my opinion from this eastward side of the Atlantic, the Clintonites have made a few mistakes:
(a) The impeccably mannered Barrack Obama was persistently blocked by a very rude and obstructive
House and Senate. The obvious lesson from this is that you do not go and vote a nice person
in as POTUS. Nothing in Hillary Clinton's campaign I saw indicated she would openly fight
the Houses, while everything in Donald Trump's manner implies that he is up for a brawl.
(b) Hillary Clinton seemed to offer more of the same but with a lady, instead of a black, President.
She really ought to have picked up on some of what Bernie was saying, perhaps put him up for VP.
(c) Donald Trump recognises that the standoffs in the East Ukraine and Syria gain the USA nothing
while Hillary Clinton seems to be stuck in contain the evil empire Russia (formerly the USSR) mode.
Hillary seems to see Russia as the strategic rival while Donald see China as strategic rival to USA.
While Donald is probably acting with much less information, I think that his instincts are correct.
(d) Many people are really tired of political correctness and welcome a candidate who speaks his mind,
(in England we voted in two known eccentrics (Ken Livingstone and Boris Johnson as Mayor of London)
the democrats often forget that when they stand up for LGBT etc, struggling straights think 'what about us'.
(e) Donald Trump set objectives, even if some of them e.g. building a wall and more amusingly getting
Mexico to pay for it, seem unrealistic. I never heard anything from Hillary about getting GNP/capita
growth back again, the Democrats seem content to let China continue to have nearly all the growth.
I suspect that most Trumpists know that putting Trump in is indeed taking a risk, but they likely reason
that there are enough checks and balances in the American system to constrain him, and hope that he
may at least stir things up to the point of getting the Houses to take an active part in government.
I would not have voted for Donald Trump, because I regard his uncorrected statements on "waterboarding
and worse" as dangerous and his business practices as fraudulent or the next thing to fraudulent; however
these days that seems to be the new norm for much corporationism so I'd have been tilting at windmills.
When I drove my kids to school on Wednesday morning; I told them that I used to think that Donald
was a duck, but now I know that he is to be president. I think there is going to be some new terminology
entering the English language. Doing a donald. Donalding out or up. It has gone Donald side up.
Good luck America.
