Re: "What idiots made this happen?"
My esteemed AC makes a valid point.
No, not anything he wrote, but the fact that he could write all that and not achieve enlightenment.
It is convenient to believe the Bill Maher reasons for Trump Voting, and to be sure there are always a few idiots willing to demonstrate for a gleeful press that they do indeed exist (just as there were really people who slept the entire night shift at British Leyland in the late 70s/early 80s, people who got a disproportionate coverage in the papers and TV news distorting the extent of the "idle git" problem and provoking tarring with a very wide brush).
The concerns of Trump voters cover a wide spectrum of issues, largely rooted in an erosion of their standard of living, often a drastic one when we consider a company town with no company any more. And remember, the IT jobs the Clinton government were dangling as a way out of penury were being shipped abroad as he spoke. This is an electorate ripe for rage voting, irrespective of racist overtones that may be but often aren't part of the calculus.
The inability to empathize with the very real concerns of those who brought Trump to the white house will guarantee him a second term. This goes for the would-be voter just as much as for the would-be candidate.
FYI: Jack Daniels and a bunch of other stuff is made in Tennessee
The "P" in your PBJ? Probably came from the same place the most famous horse race in the US is held, as did your post-it notes
Apart from the obvious Orange Juice industry, and the huge numbers of foreign tourists visiting for their own spendy reasons, there's quite a few things made in Florida that Americans like to buy.
And those are all before we start looking at the mineral resources. Tennessee, for example, probably provided at least some of the coal used so you could make your ranty post and I could make this snarky reply to it.
But I'm sure there are quite a few racist idiots who see Trump as permission to wind back the clock. We had a bunch of anti-Semitic crap go down in NY just recently (we export bank collapses and stock market crashes; you're welcome).
Idiots are idiots, and need little excuse to start behaving as such (as the rifle-toting twats who showed up to candidate Obama's speeches proved, and as the endless witless Arsebooking about "coming to get our guns" showed throughout his presidency). Then there was/is the Do Nothing Congress and the Do Nothing Senate, the twin national disgraces.
But when a country's electorate speak so clearly (and notwithstanding the popular vote bum steer, no-one thought that Trump's demagoguery would draw *ANY* number of votes at first - he was a joke candidate like that fool who believes the Pyramids are grain silos) it behooves everyone who voted differently to listen and attempt understanding beyond a smart-ass one-liner on a late night comedy show, so they can demand a better candidate of their own next time.
Let's be brutally frank: What lost the elections this time was as much the DNC's dynastic view of their world in spite of a clear groundswell indicating there were serious problems with the heir apparent in the public's eye as the charismatic draw of OPOTUS. Huge numbers of people were so enthused by their choices that they just stayed home on polling day.