Trump won the white working-man vote..

[TaraJo]

Another side of that to consider:
A while back, a facebook friend was claiming that criticisms of Obama are racism.  Meaning you can't disagree with Obamacare, with tax policy, with drone strikes, none of that, or you're racist.

I don't think it's that they're really offended by being called bigots or racist anymore; I think that, when the left calls people racist, it's kinda starting to be ignored.  The boy cried wolf one too many times and now nobody believes him, despite the fact that there are several very real wolves there that need to be dealt with.

So what, we just stay silent and ignore the racial aspect of the election?

Nope.  Not my intent.  Especially not in this election, where it seemed like every word spewed out of that orange mouth of Trumps was aimed directly at a racial or ethnic minority.  Race played a big role here.

But, understand that claims of racism aren't going to work if you throw them out all the time.  Sometimes, it's racism.  Other times, calling something racism is a bit of a stretch.  I mean, if, as I've seen done, you say 'all white people are racist,' you're saying that Donald Trump has no choice but to be racist.  It kinda takes the oomph out of the term 'racist,' and that's a shame because racist should be a very ugly word.  Or if you call it racism when someone criticizes Obama's tax policy or Obamacare or his drone strikes or his foreign policy, people will take your claims of what is and what isn't racism.  When someone doesn't like Obama, but they were big supporters of Herman Cain or Ben Carson, I don't think you can really chalk their feelings to racism.  Recognize when you're reaching a bit far to make claims of racism and stop reaching; otherwise, the result is that people don't pay attention to you when legitimate racism happens.  

And I feel like that's what has been happening.  The term "racism" is thrown around so casually in many progressive circles that it's lost all meaning.  It's almost like the term "fascist."  You want the term to have a specific meaning, if you want it to hurt someone, don't use it so much.  Save the claims of racism for when real racism happens.