The fracturing of America as to Obama you can't solve a problem that you wont label

Although it launched him on the road to the presidency, Obama was simply wrong in the 2004 speech that made him (link is external)famous. There most certainly was a Red/white/rural/working class America and it was different from the Blue/black/urban/educated class America. The differences, which were with us when Obama spoke, were, at that time, small ripples relative to the wave that was coming. Even though Obama had lived both the Black and White experience, he did not know how to stop the wave. And he lacked a psychologist’s understanding of identity and group polarization to keenly discuss it. The reason is simple. You can’t solve the problems that you don’t label. That was Obama’s big mistake.

Trump was Red America’s middle finger to Blue America. It was a primal scream, a profound rejecting of the direction Blue America was taking us. It must be seen as that. Maybe Blue America deserved it. Maybe they did not. But that is what happened.

 And so Blue America thought the time was right to fully affirm their progressive identity. A black man handing a baton of the Presidency to a white woman would be, for Blue/black/urban/educated America, the ultimate rejection of our country’s history of white male dominance.

Of course, the choice of Hillary Clinton was experienced by the other side as a complete rejection of Red/white/rural/working class/masculine America. Blue America claimed it was into diversity and tolerance, but everyone in the Red camp knew they did not give a shit about rural, whites. working-class men. In fact, Hillary said it best. They were the “deplorables.” That word caught fire because it revealed to the world what she really thought

The feeling of Red/white/rural/working class America was: “After eight years in power, you, Blue America, still think of us as a bunch of deplorable racists? And now you give us Hillary, of all people? It is ridiculous.”

And so, more than anything, Red/white/rural/working class America wanted to say: “hypocriticaF*ck you! We hate how you look down at us. We hate your elite universities and fancy vocabulary. You think you know so much. You preach tolerance and acceptance. But you don’t see us at all. You don’t see our lives rusting away. You don’t see the drug abuse and the suicides. Instead, you just want to use us as your racist whipping boys, all while you talk about the evils of slavery from centuries ago. It is obnoxious.