In seeking to understand why 70m people voted for him the easy answer is there are 70m reasons. However with no empirical evidence just my guessing I would say the following generalisations can be made.

There are people with very low IQ who genuinely believe (or want to believe) his rhetoric. Probably balanced against a similar number of numpties who voted for the other old bloke.

Like here there are plenty who would vote for a pig if it wore the right colour rosette.

Not too many of the vast evangelical numbers will vote Democrat but they consider it their duty to vote.

And then there are a very large number of white people who are sick to the back teeth of being rubbished as racists etc. just because they are white. I actually have some sympathy with that view.

And there are others.

I think Teddy Eagle has a valid question. I don't support Trump but as 70m people voted for him that has to tell you something. It is just a guess but I would say many of those people feel let down by previous politicians, they feel that their concerns have not been addressed.

Now Trump may not be the answer but the responsible politicians have a duty to ask why was he so popular. When you live in an area where the factories have closed and the jobs have been exported to China Trump had a point about bringing those jobs back. He may not have had the right solution but at least he was seen as putting America first.

Politicians keep on ignoring the people at their peril, they did it with Brexit when minor changes would have satisfied most people. The Democrats will now need to fix some of the inner city issues if they don't then maybe next time around groups they rely on such as black people will look elsewhere for leadership.

In the sixties and seventies Britain and the USA were a little distant mainly because we didn't support the Vietnam war. However both sides got over it with Reagan and Thatcher et al.

It maybe we are not now first on the invitation list for Biden but we will survive and he will only serve one term. Perhaps he thinks the EU is the way forward but as previous American Presidents have discovered when the shinola hits the fan many EU states go missing then they realise who their true friends are.

As for the free trade agreement we haven't had one before hopefully we will Biden may not like us but the business of America is business so I expect he will get pressure from certain sectors.

Edited by Badger11 (10 Nov 2020 8.53pm)

Now who is indulging in unsubstantiated conspiracy theories?

Have I ever patronised you? Not sure I have. My criticisms of you only stem from your “I know better than you” attitude and your constant belittling of those that don’t share your views. You will disagree but hey ho