Slate's Magazine's Jamelle Bouie compares Donald Trump's win to racist the defeating Civil War reconstruction

The 2016 presidential election began breaking toward Republican Donald Trump as Tuesday night wore on into Wednesday and over on CBS, Slate columnist Jamelle Bouie repeatedly played the race card and even shamefully compared the surprise and repudiation of the establishment to racists and segregationists defeating Civil War Reconstruction. Before this jaw-dropping train of thought, Bouie suggested just before 10:00 p.m. Eastern that much of Trump’s appeal was “that cultural resentment” and implored that it be “identif[ied] as being racial animus and that it’s significant that Trump has closed so much of a gap and done so well with white voters across the country.”