I wouldn’t consider that trump voters are smarter or dumber than Obama voters that fell for “hope and change”….
After all , a lot of them voted for both…
I wouldn’t equate a person’s desperation to their intelligence or lack there of.
In all, it boils down to which party is more capable of manipulating the most vunerable in our country to sway votes their way. The strategy and tools used by the democrats might have worked before, but they won’t work moving forward. It needs to come up with a better manipulation machine to win votes back… It will be difficult win if you can’t get buy in from the white working class…. it doesn’t matter how many blacks or Latinos you try to convince…. they most likely vote blue anyway.