I think the biggest problem is that the left decided that they could ignore a huge swath of people simply because their concerns weren't valid.
That sounds silly and facetious but that's how politics works. It doesn't matter on the scale we're talking whether the concerns of the rural farm belt / rust belts were valid or not. We could (and should) have a social discussion about whether or not the concerns are valid but for the purpose of the election it was a non-issue.
If you are seeking high office addressing concerns is not the same thing as agreeing with them and the Hillary campaign sorely misunderstood that.
A few token speeches and photo ops that at the end of the day were essentially meaningless might have been all it would have took.
Non-city felt like it was ignored and without agency and that manifested as both fear and hatred. So what if they weren't true? When we're talking perception it doesn't matter if it valid.
Since I feel there is no serious social political discussion that can't be made better by addressing it in pop culture memes, I'll use Batman.
In the film the Dark Knight there is the following exchange occurs:
Bruce Wayne: Targeting me won't get their money back. I knew the mob wouldn't go down without a fight, but this is different. They crossed the line.
Alfred Pennyworth: You crossed the line first, sir. You squeezed them, you hammered them to the point of desperation. And in their desperation, they turned to a man they didn't fully understand.
Replace Bruce Wayne with Hillary Clinton, the Mob with rural America, and the Joker with Donald Trump and you have an almost perfect description of this election.
Does that mean the Joker is the good guy and Batman is the villain of the story? No. It doesn't not. Does it make the Mob's concerns valid or good? No. But the point is still valid.
That sounds silly and facetious but that's how politics works. It doesn't matter on the scale we're talking whether the concerns of the rural farm belt / rust belts were valid or not. We could (and should) have a social discussion about whether or not the concerns are valid but for the purpose of the election it was a non-issue.
If you are seeking high office addressing concerns is not the same thing as agreeing with them and the Hillary campaign sorely misunderstood that.
A few token speeches and photo ops that at the end of the day were essentially meaningless might have been all it would have took.
Non-city felt like it was ignored and without agency and that manifested as both fear and hatred. So what if they weren't true? When we're talking perception it doesn't matter if it valid.
Since I feel there is no serious social political discussion that can't be made better by addressing it in pop culture memes, I'll use Batman.
In the film the Dark Knight there is the following exchange occurs:
Bruce Wayne: Targeting me won't get their money back. I knew the mob wouldn't go down without a fight, but this is different. They crossed the line.
Alfred Pennyworth: You crossed the line first, sir. You squeezed them, you hammered them to the point of desperation. And in their desperation, they turned to a man they didn't fully understand.
Replace Bruce Wayne with Hillary Clinton, the Mob with rural America, and the Joker with Donald Trump and you have an almost perfect description of this election.
Does that mean the Joker is the good guy and Batman is the villain of the story? No. It doesn't not. Does it make the Mob's concerns valid or good? No. But the point is still valid.
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- trying to "fix" their "stupidity" as opposed to ....... well I don't really know what 
