You speak part truth, part what you believe in, Eric. That is a shame for a few reasons.
The most important one is that you did not lay bare the actual truth of our voting system and how it undermined the white working class.
Pay close attention to our voting system: about 60% of the voters voted for the senators sitting in their seats. No, Ranked-Choice Voting would do NOTHING to ameliorate that.
Sixty percent of the voters getting who they wanted (from among the two major candidates), that is not all that great. Why? Because just half of these winners make the majority decision.
Can you do the math? Half of 60% is just 30%.
If we look at Sweden, the Netherlands and Spain, then the voters are represented at a level of 95% to 99.5% of the voters' choices. So, when these representatives make a majority decision, then that is supported by the majority of the voters and their very own choice in the voting booths.
Why is this important? Because the United States shares the least amount of its economic output with its poor of all rich nations. The poor in other rich nations are better off than our poor.
We are talking about the bottom 25 percent of the population, and this section either does not vote because they learned they cannot get the one they would like to vote for, or they help the winner go from Blue to Red or Red to Blue. And neither party does much for them at all. Remember, they are the worst off of all poor people in the rich nations of the world.
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The racist argument is both real and boloney. It is real in that we can see that the whites are indeed overrepresented in the Senate (by about 30 percent points). Yet this does not translate into the bottom white folks any better off. They need more whites in winning positions before it is their turn to benefit. They are waiting to benefit and right now they are not benefiting.
So, this is the crux of the story. Suppress the bottom of society and the bottom of society will start fighting with one another, with race just one of the reasons to disagree with one another.
Yes, the other races know that they don't have too much to win from the Republican Party; that is, until they reach their middle class status and get involved with the larger struggles of the United States, which is a class struggle of small businesses struggling to remain afloat while the bigger companies and (foreign) investors reap the benefits of the hard labor that all folks in the USA are known for.
If society were organized better, i.e. there would not be a trickle down effect but rather a regular stream of income that is more than a trickle going toward the bottom sides of society (including better education for all), then and only then would folks be less racist because they are then better off themselves and can share better with others.
You see? We do need reform, but not some silly Ranked-Choice Voting that does totally nothing to change the elitist aspect of our voting system.
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The irony?
The Framers already demanded the higher standard of voting for State and local levels. It's even in the US Constitution, that States cannot undermine the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States. Translation: there is a minimum standard in place in which voters are guaranteed to the max that their vote translates into actual representation.
Let me end it here, mentioning the essential flaw of our voting system once more:
Voters compete with the voters for representation.
That is totally not a decent standard. That is the British law of the street, not the Enlightenment the Framers desired us to have.
In Sweden, the Netherlands, and Spain, voters do not compete with voters for representation. That is why their poor share more in the economic output of their nations. They are represented by people they actually voted for themselves. These governments are not based on pure competition. They have a good amount of cooperation, emancipation, collaboration in their voting systems.
We only have the rich represent all people here, a few good exceptions notwithstanding. Trump is of course himself one of the horrible examples. We have way too many of them 'representing' us.
So, what do voters want from Trump? They want a fist. They want to fight every other group there is because they don't have enough themselves. They want to do what the system does: compete, compete, compete, compete.
