Stu- people will be dissecting this election for a long, long, time. This is one perspective. Not yours, for sure, but one that is as valid as you claiming to know the reasons the rust belt people chose the candidate they did. Telling someone to grow up because they felt marginalized by the election outcome and want to express an opinion about it is in itself childish. Go write your own analysis if you have one to put out there besides in a trolling comment...

I have no problem with expressing an opinion, so long as it is grounded in reality. And this post isn't. It is not valid to accuse everyone who voted for Trump of being sexist (especially when that includes the majority of white women in this country). It is childish to throw accusations like sexism against tens of millions of people who all had different reasons for voting the way they did, especially when none of the decent exit polls back it up as being a major reason. There is a pervasive narrative on the left right now that the election was all about which chromosomes you happen to have, and an unwillingness to address the substantial and substantive reasons why the vast majority of Trump voters decided to do so. And that's why posts like this one need to be fought back against; because when those on the left keep reducing it to oversimplifications and name-calling against the other side, it will condemn us to eight years of Trump and Pence instead of four.

Answer this: If sexism is such a big deal, then why did Clinton win the popular vote?

I remember laughing at Republicans after Romney lost, how they embarrassed themselves by talking about the only reason Obama won was because he “gave away stuff to the 47%” and other bullshit.

Now it’s apparently Hillary supporters turn to embarrass themselves with articles like this.

Like Stu said it wasn’t sexism that cost Hillary the election and it wasn’t sexism when she lost in ‘08 too. It definitely wasn’t sexism to why she couldn’t connect with the working class communities in the Midwest as Tricia smugly suggests. In that area of the country people have seen their livelihoods destroyed by declining union membership and globalization. This was caused by politicians from both parties passing neoliberal trade deals that vacated factories and who then followed up by gutting the social safety net that should have protected those workers when their jobs left. These working class men and women can’t connect with Hillary not because they are taught “strong, smart, powerful, independent, loud” women are bad (projection much?) but because she is part of a political system that has abandoned them. A lof of these same working class people who you condescendingly called sexist and racist voted for Obama! He spoke of hope and actually made an effort to campaign in the Midwest, not just write it off to his opponent like Hillary did.

Articles like this remind me that if all Democrats take from this election is that Hillary was perfect and the only reason she lost is because everyone is sexist and “Bernie Bros”, those of us on the Left are fucked.