Hundreds protest in opposition of Donald Trump's presidential election victory on Boston Common in Boston, Wednesday evening, Nov. 9, 2016. Charles Krupa AP/Press Association. All rights reserved.Hillary Clinton won a majority of the American popular vote; the US electoral college, unchallenged, will soon give Donald Trump the presidency. This is the fourth time a US president will have taken office having lost the popular vote; in 2000 Al Gore won the popular vote against George W. Bush but lost the electoral college vote. The stark voting division this year was racial: 58% of white voters, and 53% of white women voters, supported Trump, compared to eight percent of black voters.
The elitist and antiquated electoral college, which will not vote on the president until December, serves to protect white racists from the country’s rapidly-changing, increasingly multicultural demography. So frightened are they of this change that they have voted by their millions for a talentless reality TV star.
Trump mobilised on an explicitly racist and misogynist agenda, degrading African-Americans, Latino-Americans, Mexicans, Muslims, Jews, women, people with disabilities and others.
