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Yet Trump won the "popular" vote. I don't want to condone those who did vote against Trump. But damn... the popular vote... that really made me loose trust in the majority of the US population. To me it only makes sense if > 1/2 of the US population is seriously mentally ill (which it likely is). Otherwise it's purely contradictionary to vote against your own interests (or let others decide in case of not voting).
Nah sorry about the few who are doing something and voted for the Dems. But not sorry for the rest of the population, they really dragged the reputation of the US into the deepest of sloppy slime (or something along these lines). And likely caused global instability (especially for the "west").
One clarification: Not > 1/2 population, rather >1/2 voter turnout (about 64%) so about one third total population. They are a loud, stupid minority, but they show up to vote.
Right, probably slightly oversimplified. But just because 36% did not vote, doesn't mean they would all vote against Trump (well they didn't vote, so...) A good chunk of them still support (or supported at he time of the election) Trump. And the fact that they didn't vote is also concerning in this important election (now especially in hindsight, but also at the time). Even as European it was extremely clear that everyone that doesn't support Trump had to vote (the lesser evil), yet for some reason they didn't. Because of reasons I just cannot fathom (as the result was and now is clear).