It Was a Change Election

Matt Bai is no Trump lover, in his columns for Yahoo News, but that doesn't mean he won't occasionally stumble across some truth. Here he describes his view of Trump's electorate.

Some large number of Trump voters — enough to put him over the top in the Electoral College — are under no illusion that he is likely to inspire them, or even reward their faith. But a lot of them made the calculation that they’d rather find that out, one way or the other, than sit through another four years of rapidly expanding government, endless scandals and empty oratory.

That’s what they saw coming in a second Clinton presidency, and no one did much to disabuse them of the notion.

Translation: It was a change election, as many had hoped/predicted. For several years a majority of Americans have said the country is on the wrong track. In 2016 the candidate of the status quo lost, as she should if elective government means anything.