{"id":2001,"date":"2016-11-09T14:43:28","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T18:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/?p=2001"},"modified":"2016-11-09T18:38:45","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T22:38:45","slug":"now-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/2001","title":{"rendered":"Now what?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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1:43 pm <\/em>\u2014 So here we are. A shocking upset that developed state by state, well into the early hours of this morning. The possibility of a Trump win became plausible after Florida, and then Ohio made it even more conceivable. Up to that point, I had been totally convinced that Hillary would prevail. I was as wrong as those who voted for her. Too many Democrats were content to denigrate a massive chunk of the population and missed the mood of the electorate. They would have done better with James Webb, who has understood what was happening. They should have read BORN FIGHTING.<\/em> The pollsters were astonishingly wrong. I think the Democrats would have preferred to have known they were behind. The media bias appears to have backfired. It energized those who felt disaffected and may have convinced members of the liberal coalition to believe that a second Clinton presidency was a done deal. Two major factors that not many are talking about today: the NRA ground game and the defection of countless union members to the Republican candidate (a throwback to the 1980s). Apparently, Clinton under-performed among educated white women, who identified less with their gender and more with the security concerns and economic uncertainties that Trump exploited. After an overnight scare, the markets have stabilized a bit today, but I expect continued volatility and perhaps a sharp technical correction over the coming weeks. At any rate, I didn\u2019t see this coming \u2014 for Trump\u2019s populist uprising to carry the day \u2014 and, sadly, I cannot foresee any kind of \u201choneymoon,\u201d in spite of the millions who yearn for a national healing.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t for a moment think that every Trump voter shares his darkest views or instincts, only that they were willing to accept them as a way of casting a vote against \u2018the system,\u2019 as they\u2019ve seen it. Now, their candidate is the system, and we\u2019ll be there to hold him to account for how he runs it.\u201d
\n\u2014 Jon Avlon,<\/strong><\/a> The Daily Beast<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1:43 pm \u2014 So here we are. A shocking upset that developed state by state, well into the early hours of this morning. The possibility of a Trump win became plausible after Florida, and then Ohio made it even more conceivable. Up to that point, I had been totally convinced that Hillary would prevail. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,46,83,16,48,49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2001"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2013,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001\/revisions\/2013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}