Why Bill Clinton’s Voters Wouldn’t Vote For Him Today, As Told By Bill Clinton
“They’re into their anger now.”
posted on Sept. 14, 2016, at 9:06 p.m.
Ruby Cramer
BuzzFeed News Reporter
Logan, West Virginia. Prestonsburg, Kentucky. Fargo, North Dakota. These are the places Bill Clinton spent the final weeks of the Democratic primary campaigning for his wife. They were mostly white, sometimes small, often forgotten towns — tucked away in coal country or some other part of the country not often visited by candidates or former presidents. Many of the voters in these places support Donald Trump now. Two decades ago, they were Bill Clinton people.
On Wednesday afternoon in North Las Vegas, the 42nd president laid out his theory on why they wouldn’t vote for him now, drawing a line from Hillary Clinton’s email “hullabaloo” to what he described as Republican efforts to distract people (“Please don’t think!”) and fuel the “road rage” felt by white working-class and blue-collar communities — people Trump treats, he said, like a “pawn in a game.”
“They voted for me,” Clinton said of the places he visited in the late spring — “small-town and rural areas,” he told the crowd, “that have been too poor too long. They wouldn’t today, though. Because they’re into their anger now.” With a laugh and a shake of the head, Clinton contended that some “won’t even admit” that President Obama’s Affordable Care Act has helped them get coverage.
Wednesday’s speech — a long and winding version of Clinton’s usual campaign trail pitch — came as a stand-in for what was supposed to be a Hillary Clinton rally. The former secretary of state cancelled three days of events this week after a medical episode on Sunday and revealing a recent pneumonia diagnosis.
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Start with globalization, NAFTA, the promise that the previous generation of high school educated factory workers would be "re-trained" to be high tech information age workers (and it was YOU and YOUR administration being too short sighted to understand that the easiest jobs to outsource are the information age jobs!) and you have a generation of people, mostly white and formerly blue collar who no longer even aspire to do as well as the "greatest generation" (people who were in their 20s in the 1940s), and they can't even coast by like the early boomers by selling off the accumulated wealth of their parents...
and you have your typical 40 to 50 year old mostly uneducated no-collar "worker" who has seen their standard of living decline in the last 20 years... who live paycheck to paycheck usually from a retail store or small business minimum wage job. You damn right they are angry, and the alt-right lying media is telling them it's YOUR fault or the fault of the "libtards" or the black guy (sometimes they come right out and say "n***ger"
in the white house or the fault of the brown people coming to take their jobs.
They are racist, homophobic, xenophobic, uneducated (they may have graduated high school but they can't locate Iraq on a map of the world), misogynistic jerks and assholes who have found the guy that will say in public and on a podium the things that they say to each other... "rough up those libtard protesters, beat them up, I'll pay for your legal expenses" and "lets blow those little Iranian boats out of the water if they come too close to our destroyers" and "we should have taken the oil".
