re: The biggest issue that my leftist friends now realize they ignored

Here's a stat I found highly interesting when it came to Romney vs Trump's results in the general election:

Hispanics: up 2%
Blacks: up 2%
Asians: up 3%
Whites: only up 1%

Maybe racists got the ball rolling with the Mexicans being rapists, but that's irrelevant with these numbers. Racists (white ones at least) I think would have voted against Hillary regardless. On top of that, the 1% of increase in votes that mostly went to Obama in the last election probably aren't racists by default, especially since they probably voted for Obama twice.

Here's the guilty secret that the media doesn't want you to know: it wasn't racists that won Trump the election, it was minorities.