My takeaway:

[marybourg]

The least qualified male candidate is preferable to the most qualified, but female, candidate.

[radical noodle]

1. Exactly

[mainstreetonce]

2. No

People in those Trump crowds are uninformed and angry.

[bettyellen]

15. Angry at uppity women and blacks.

[MelissaB]

3. People didn't want an establishment candidate with ties to wall street.

I could go on, but I'm trying to be nice.

[grossproffit]

5. I'll remember this in 2020. The "trying to be nice" part.

[marybourg]

6. Yeah, that's the current media meme,

but my takeaway is different. (The Donald doesn't have ties to Wall St and far less savory ones in addition?)

[jalan48]

7. I'm not sure who the secret Wall Street speeches appealed to.

[TimeChaser]

9. If someone hated wall street enough to not vote for Hillary

why the hell would they vote for Trump?

[emulatorloo]

14. Trump's an establishment predatory capitalist

BTW, Eichenwald has a great postmortem you might enjoy reading. Title is in all caps so I reproduced that:

THE MYTHS DEMOCRATS SWALLOWED THAT COST THEM THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
BY KURT EICHENWALD ON 11/14/16

http://www.newsweek.com/myths-cost-democrats-presidential-election-521044

[grossproffit]

4. My takeaway is that bitter babies crossed over to vote for Trump to spite Clinton.

In the end they ended up fucking themselves. The end.

[MelissaB]

8. I think most of us (the "bitter babies"/Bernie supporters) sucked it up and voted

for what we considered a shitty candidate because the other option was unbearable.

[grossproffit]

12. That's how I viewed him.

[geek tragedy]

10. voters never choose based on qualifications. never.

Reagan was less qualified than Carter. Bill Clinton was less qualified than Poppy Bush. George W Bush was less qualified than Al Gore. Barack Obama was less qualified than John McCain.

"something different" beats "qualifications" every single time.

[bettyellen]

17. I was reading some article that said they despise the professional class because they know and have

To hire and pay them (doctors lawyers teachers and such) they them for being well paid and "telling them what to do"- which you have to admit sounds pretty Trumpian.
But they love the filthy rich who don't have to jump through hoops getting an education and working hard. They loved Trump because he was a vulgarian asshole who does what ever the fuck he wants and laughs his way to the bank. Apparently it's the same mentality as those who plan on winning the lottery.

The rest of the article was bullsht, but I thought that was interesting.

[Jersey Devil]

11. What my wife says

She says people will vote for a black man before they will vote for a woman. I think she is on to something.

[marybourg]

13. History proves her right. nt.

[MyNameIsKhan]

16. this is what I cannot imagine as a man... what is wrong with female body parts? Menopause?