We've been talking about the new PRRI/The Atlantic research on white working class voters who preferred Trump to Hillary 2 to 1. Much has been made of Hillary's failure to carry white women without a college degree. This research provides tons of answers, but one really sticks out to me:

Overall, white working-class Americans make up one-third (33%) of the adult public, a substantially larger share than white Americans with at least a four-year college education (22%).

In no region do white working-class Americans comprise a larger proportion of the population than in the Midwest, where they account for more than four in ten (43%) Americans.

This link covers all the research questions and answers, but the one on 'Yearning for a Leader Willing to Break the Rules" sticks out.

"Authoritarian-style leadership is much more attractive to white working-class Americans than to white college-educated Americans. Six in ten (60%) white working-class Americans, compared to only 32% of white college-educated Americans say we need such a strong leader; two-thirds (67%) of white college-educated Americans disagree."

58% of working class white men now express an authoritarian orientation, which is disconcerting to Democrats and progressives, Independents and true conservatives. But on the subject of Hillary Clinton not winning the white working class women's vote, 71% of those women prefer an authoritarian leader.

No one ever accused Hillary Clinton of being an authoritarian like Trump. I believe this stat about women in particular, because the most amazing research out of Baylor University in 2010 was done on America's Four Gods. Well over 150,000 people -- including many of us back then -- took the online survey, which had dramatic results around different visions of God.

The fourth vision of God -- one that I scored in believing -- is a non-gender spiritual energy force in the universe. Fully 25% of Americans embraced God #4, but get this -- it was 98% male who believe that God has no gender. American women believe that God is male -- except for Lisa and me, and a few other brave women with enlightened brains.

When I read the book and then took the online test, I said feminism is sunk in America if 98% of women believe that God is always watching them (more questions) and God is a he.

So to read this stat about white working class women having a stronger authoritarian impulse than men tells me that Hillary stood very little chance of getting their vote.

There are many interesting answers about the Trump voters, including large numbers believe we already have too many women in political office, even though we rank like 90th in the world. America is just not the progressive country we flatter ourselves to be and 'yes', our belief silos are worse than ever. ~ Anne

Reports are that Trump supporters are furious with Hillary supporters for not backing the firing of Comey. President Trump himself totally underestimated the ability of Hillary supporters to get beyond our own anger at former FBI Director Comey and be even more concerned that Trump fired Comey hours after he asked for funding to expand his investigation into Russian interference in America's presidential election and possible collusion beteen Trump and/or members of the Trump team and Russia.

The fact that Hillary supporters put our grave concerns about Trump his love for the Russians ahead of our frustration over Comey's role in costing Hillary the presidential election only confirms that Clinton supporters do not think in a linear path, as do Trump supporters -- and many Sanders supporters, as well. Smithsonian.com explains in Study Predicts Political Beliefs With 83 Percent Accuracy.

Other scans have shown that brain regions associated with risk and uncertainty, such as the fear-processing amygdala, differ in structure in liberals and conservatives. And different architecture means different behavior. Liberals tend to seek out novelty and uncertainty, while conservatives exhibit strong changes in attitude to threatening situations. The former aremore willing to accept risk, while the latter tends to have more intense physical reactions to threatening stimuli.

Also, we are well aware that Trump threw a smoke screen our way, trying to explain his firing of the FBI Director as a gesture on our behalf. No thanks, Mr. President. We're not buying your lame explanation.

The New York Times reports on Hillary insiders and what they have to say about the Comey firing.