The left created Trump?

[Benton]

(11-22-2016, 03:49 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: I'm off this week so I'm enjoying some free time to read all of the news and opinion sites I don't always have time to get to.  One particular article on Politico absolutely nails, IMO, why Trump was elected.

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/11/how-the-left-created-donald-trump-214472

Of course, I've been saying similar things this entire year so of course my opinion on this article will be a bit biased.  That being the case, I'd be interested in your opinions on this piece.

Sort of agree, sort of disagree.

I think Democrats have been (and in the presidential election, were) focusing on the wrong issues. As the article points out, the economy is the #1 concern. It's not Bush-era bad, but it's not good. And it's still leaving a large number of people behind.

Trump presented no plans for turning the economy around, but he played on a similar message as Obama: hope and change. He focused a lot of that conversation on playing on what people wanted to hear without providing details: it's not your fault, it's the [businesses, system, Mexicans, politicians, Muslims, Clintons, Democrats, Republicans, journalists, immigrants]. While Trump made headlines for blaming everyone (which is what people want to hear, that somebody is going to get called out), Clinton made headlines for a litany of problems the majority of people weren't caring about (gun violence, crime reduction, college tuition reform, foreign policy). While Clinton was being asked and offering conversations on issues, Trump was talking about how things weren't fair. It's a simple message, but people understand it. They don't understand the power structure in the Middle East and how it effects their gas price, they just want someone to say "It's not your fault gas is $3, and I'm going to fix it."