"Anyone who thinks Donald Trump can't become president either hasn't been paying close attention to our country and our love of celebrity, or has been paying attention to the wrong things, like demography in a regular election cycle, or history...but white resentment and anger are things for which precious Nate Silver's statistical models cannot control. This is why you shouldn't trust math geeks (no offense, as I normally love me some math geeks) to tell you who's going to win elections. In normal times they may be spot on. These are not normal times. The Latino vote will be irrelevant, sadly, in this campaign because it is concentrated in states that are already safely Dem or Republican. All Trump needs is the overwhelmingly white states of Ohio, PA and Michigan along with VA and NC or Wisconsin and he would win. And what is the plan to defeat him there? Run a candidate who is tied to all the shitty trade deals that wrecked their economies and put lots of white blue collar workers out of work in those places? Yeah, that's genius...Look, don't get me wrong, I desperately want to be proved wrong on this. But I have learned never to underestimate white folks, especially older ones, and their penchant for reactionary nonsense. Underestimating them now risks everything..." (Tim Wise)