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In response to
"In that context, every supported candidate matches that description."
by
Will Hunting, King of Astronauts
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I don't think so. Obama was after 8 years of GWB and would be the first African-American president. He represented a post-racial America that had only
Posted by
Roger More (aka rogermore)
Jan 13 '17, 08:58
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existed in theory beforehand.
Trump was after eight years of Obama, but also eight years of GWB, eight years of Clinton, 12 years of Reagen/Bush.
He appealed to people who hadn't felt they had a "strong" president under Obama - ie a president who supported America doing its own thing, over multilateralism, collaboration and compromise.
He appealed to people who wanted a white president which they hadn't had in 8 years, and also those who didn't want to follow up a black president with a female president.
He appealed to people who didn't want a forward-looking president, they wanted a protectionist who would build a wall, which they hadn't had in... basically forever?
Compare those two against, say, Romney in 2012 (remember the Ryan! Ryan! chants?), Kerry in 2004, Bush in 2000 (more of the same that we had eight years ago). I mean, every candidate gets enthusiastic supporters who get face tattoos, but for the mainstream voters of each party they were all "yeah, he'll do"
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