People who believe the Clintons are running a child sex ring out of a pizza place.

[TwilightZone]

22. Turnout is certainly key.

It's a factor in why we lost this time, among many others.

Trump basically had to have a bunch of different things go right, and pretty much all of them happened. Convince the swing states that he's some kind of populist. Demographic swings in lower incomes and minorities. Lower turnout because of apathy or "both sides are bad"ism. Protest votes. Women (inexplicably, in my view) voting for him in numbers similar to Romney. A perfect storm of suck.

I don't think most Trump supporters are alt-right, but I think the number who were driven by fear or bigotry is higher than some would like to believe. Exit polls show him winning on immigration and terrorism. Latinos and Muslims, as it were. There are a lot of other reasons why he won, and we risk missing useful information if we assume any region or demographic was lost for simplistic reasons. Though, there are certainly definable patterns.

I also agree that we're winning the long-term demographic war. That's partly why it took an unlikely series of events - and probably a healthy dose of voter suppression - for Trump to win.