As the Antiplanner writes, it appears that Donald Trump will defy most polls and become the next president. While many people claimed his rhetoric was racist, the Antiplanner and others argued that he appealed to members of the working class who felt downtrodden by elitist policies.
Still, too many election results last night represented a victory of the elites over common sense. There is no better example of elitist thinking than light rail, which many people support because they are too snooty to ride a bus.
There were nearly 50 transit measures on various local ballots yesterday, and I haven’t looked at them all. (Update: APTA says 72 percent of yesterday’s transit measures passed.) But the biggest boondoggle appear to be winning, including Los Angeles’ $120 billion transit measure M and Seattle’s Sound Transit 3. It looks appears San Jose’s measure B, which would raise taxes to fund cost overruns for the BART line to San Jose, is winning.
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Another elitist idea is that a county whose housing is unaffordable and that is half public lands that will forever be open space still needs to protect more open space even though such protection will make housing even more expensive. Ventura County strongly supported Clinton, so it is not surprising that county also approved an open-space protection plan that will drive up housing prices.
I’d like to believe that’s a pattern: places that voted for Clinton also voted for elitist ballot measures. But Indianapolis and Spokane both went for Trump, yet both also approved bus-rapid transit plans that involved buying unnecessarily large and expensive electric buses. If rail transit is for elites, then $1.2 million battery-powered buses come close.
As many people have pointed out, Trump’s actual behavior in office is likely to be entirely unpredictable. So time will tell who really won, the elites or everyone else.
“While many people claimed his rhetoric was racist”
His rhetoric speaks for itself, calling Mexican immigrants “rapists” and calling for a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims” and using FDR’s unconstitutional internment of Japanese Americans as an example and justification.
Oh, and he grabs women by the pussy.
Trump was far less a racist than his opponent.
Few things are more condescendingly racist and insulting than Hillary faking a black southern accent whenever speaking to black groups. Or making believe she is a Hispanic when among Hispanics.
To people like Hillary, minority groups are merely pawns to use to get more power and money. And she has been very successful at that.
“Trump was far less a racist than his opponent.”
Please.
Faking an accent, if that’s what she was really doing, is not on par with saying you want to intern Muslims and believing all Mexicans are rapists.
GTFO.
The DNC has aligned with various rappers and their sexist and sometimes racist music. Yet Trump’s comments are beyond the pale.