Excellent posts. The media spent it's time working hand in hand with Clinton and the DNC during this whole thing, they are a victim of both deep ignorance of those outside of their very small bubbles/echo chambers and that they worked to directly to construct a false narrative and spin it. Same with the polling, all worked hand in glove. They believed their own lies and false reality...hence the shock. If they talked to people outside of their purview they would have seen this coming.
Now they all just sound like a bunch of losers who still don't get it. Who still push the "Sexism won the election for Trump!" or "Racist white won it!" and they couldn't be any more wrong.
I know a lot of people (specifically conservatives) look at some of the stuff revealed in the Wikileaks dump and say that it was proof the fix was in, but I don't really buy that. For the most part, that's how politics works. Donna Brazile feeding questions to Hillary's camp was just plain unethical, but politicians and journalists who cover politics generally develop relationships. The fact that there was quid pro quo for Hillary wasn't an outlier. The fact that we had access to a big chunk of her email correspondence was.
That being said, there really is a tale of two Americas going on here. I think it's inaccurate to say that one is "very small" and a construct of lies, but the other does get ignored habitually. I remember a few years back when there was a controversy over the show "Duck Dynasty". I was not only surprised to hear that this show existed, but that it was one of the most popular shows on television. A large part of its appeal was the conservative values it displayed.
