http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...elped-trump/ar-AADHHoa?li=BBnbcA1&ocid=HPCDHP https://theconversation.com/russian-twitter-propaganda-predicted-2016-us-election-polls-119444 Our results show that the weeks when Russian trolls were accumulating likes and retweets on Twitter, that activity reliably foreshadowed gains for Trump in the opinion polls. This finding survived a number of our additional checks, including accounting for the popularity of Trump’s own personal Twitter account. It turns out that the activity of Russian Twitter trolls was a better predictor of Donald Trump’s polling numbers than his own Twitter activity. Yet Hillary Clinton’s popularity was not affected. That is particularly surprising given that much of the Russian propaganda was designed to discredit her. Why did Russian propaganda mobilize Americans behind the unorthodox Donald Trump, yet fail to discourage people from supporting Clinton? There are several possible reasons for this. The data suggests that Russian trolls targeted conservative-leaning voters who would not be likely to vote for Clinton in the first place. One example of that is when they used the December 2015 San Bernardino shooting to stoke fears of Muslim immigration. It was shortly after this that Donald Trump first mentioned his “Muslim ban” policy. The targeting of conservatives was made more potent by the structure of the U.S. media ecosystem. Because Fox News is the lone conservative network in mainstream U.S. media, there is plenty of space for alternative sources of conservative news. During the 2016 election, Breitbart (a highly partisan news website, once edited by Steve Bannon, who later became Donald Trump’s chief strategist) rapidly grew into this opening, becoming the second-most popular source for conservative news.
People voted for Trump because he was infinitely better for the country than Clinton. Simple fact. Get over it.
Except the people didn’t vote for trump over Hillary. She won the “vote” of the people and lost the vote of the states. Unfortunately many conservatives have a really low bar for what they view as fact as long as it suites their political narrative. Like trump said, he loves the “poorly educated” — they did in fact elect him by a significant margin.
I repeat...... People voted for Trump because he was infinitely better for the country than Clinton. there is no sensible argument to the contrary. Case closed.
