WHY DID FRANK CAPRA AND JIMMY STEWART’S BEDFORD FALLS IN "IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE" VOTE FOR TRUMP?

It’s a bitter pill to swallow, but swallow it we must.

He was duly elected.

By working incredibly hard, against the odds, with almost no ground staff at first and even at the end, but using mass rallies and constant press focus, he beat her.

If we want to overcome, suggest you drop venting (that effiing @##$%%%%%) and ineffective satire to see what actually happened.

And also put aside the unproven and unprovable “Putin hack”. Since when do we rely on the CIA for truth? Cheering for it will boomerang.

The sad truth is that Trump worked harder and more strategically than Clinton, and the 95% white small towns like “Bedford Falls” were crazy about him pussy-grabber or not.

How else in the Republican primary did he win ALL 67 Pennsylvania counties which had never been done before?

Because he could give people what they wanted and Hillary could not: spectacle, crudeness and racism.

The county of Seneca Falls, New York, Capra’s model for “It’s A Wonderful Life” – ironically, the cradle of women’s rights movement – went for Trump decisively though the city itself gave Clinton a bare majority.

Let’s hear it for civilization’s greatest achievement: cities.

I love the idea of small towns but am a big city boy, proud and unredeemed. The suburbs that turned out for Trump give me the whimwhams.

Walking back the 2016 election it’s easy to see Trump’s genius for self advertisement. In town after town suffering from neglect, Main Street boarded up, he tirelessly showed up in places he was predicted to lose
for his “I feel your pain and only I can fix it” show. For people with half an ear it was entertaining and affirming.

Seneca Falls once had knitting mills. The last mill is gone replaced by a Women’s Museum.

Why did we not notice that his rallies, his “alternative facts”, were brilliantly counter-intuitive and bursting at the seams with negative energy?

Lacking a solid ground organization, poorly organized, rafters shaking with his confident fakery, he fought against Hillary, his own (quite lean) campaign staff and The Establishment of his own party.

He connected to the small town Devil in all of us.

Hillary said we were better than that, and we aren’t.

Now then, how do we do what the Democrats failed at and continue to fail at because, let’s face it, our hearts aren’t in it, to drag into the light of day so many people left behind?