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1/3 voted for him and 1/3 didn't care enough to vote to keep him out.
If you know your child is in the room with a known rapist, and you don't intervene and remove the child from the room, and the child gets raped, whose fault is it the child got raped?
Obviously everyone except the child. Now what about if your only option is another room where another abuser won't assault your child but will hire someone to sexuality assault your siblings children in plain view of you and yours?
Not saying trump or inaction were good choices, just that it wasn't an easy one for a good many folk, and i felt sick to my stomache voting dem that year. Though i can't remember feeling a different way about voting dem, just that it was Not the Other Guy^TM^