Steven, very few have commented on the role white privilege played in the US elections.

Coupled with this is the term "male privilege"; Having the possibility of a female president further  erodes their "male privilege". Taken together, this highlights the voting behaviour of many white males.

In one candidate, they could sense how to restore that status once again; to be great again, whatever that meant. White catholics, particularly those who are fundamentalists in their beliefs, could  sense a new champion in their midst. For too long they had suffered in their struggle to tell the world that abortion is an intrinsic evil and the only way to convince women otherwise is to declare it illegal once again.

They saw their white privilege strengthened once again; "to be great again" by voting for a candidate whose only attribute was that he was also a "white male".