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DemocratSinceBirth

(100,361 posts)
Thu Aug 24, 2017, 01:56 PM Aug 2017

It's the cultural anxiety, stupid Fear of a non-white nation is the main driver of Trump's support





In the wake of the presidential election, we’ve all been asking simplistic questions about how Donald Trump won. Was it economics? Was it racism? Was it misogyny? Did it come down to identity? We know that it can’t have been just one thing, and that President Trump’s triumph was a concoction of many things. Nonetheless, several factors came together in a peculiar way, with serious electoral consequences. Millions of white voters began to see themselves more openly not as white supremacists but as white identified.

It is no secret that the president has capitalized on the increasing salience of race and ethnicity in recent years. The furious reaction to many different historical and cultural developments — mass immigration; the success of the civil rights and women’s rights movements; the election and re-election of a black president; and the approaching end of white majority status in the United States — has created a political environment ripe for the growth of white identity politics.

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Trump has mobilized the white identity electorate, and in doing so has put the tenuous American commitment to racial and ethnic egalitarianism on the line. And Trump has been captured by the success of his own demagoguery. He surged ahead of his Republican competitors for the nomination when he threw matches on the kindling and now, under siege, his only strategy for survival is to pour gasoline on the flames.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/24/opinion/donald-trump-identity-politics.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region
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It's the cultural anxiety, stupid Fear of a non-white nation is the main driver of Trump's support (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth Aug 2017 OP
To this day I'm hearing it was the TPP... only as far as xenophobia is concerned is that valid bettyellen Aug 2017 #1
and we know this is not the case since they had no problem voting for pro trade republicans JI7 Aug 2017 #5
I always thought when we are all a beautiful WhiteTara Aug 2017 #2
and most who fear immigrants have little to no contact with them ... kwassa Aug 2017 #3
Agree. Most will admit it. They also hate the professional Alice11111 Aug 2017 #4
 

bettyellen

(47,209 posts)
1. To this day I'm hearing it was the TPP... only as far as xenophobia is concerned is that valid
Thu Aug 24, 2017, 02:03 PM
Aug 2017

It's cited by those who don't want other Americans to have "their jobs" either. I was recently mansplained that sexists were correct in fearing "their jobs" would go to women. Even Dems internalized some if this crap.

JI7

(90,844 posts)
5. and we know this is not the case since they had no problem voting for pro trade republicans
Mon Aug 28, 2017, 04:32 AM
Aug 2017

over democrats like feingold and strickland who were less supportive of free trade.

they blame democrats which is made up of large majorities of minorities for racism also.

they see the racists as the victims.

WhiteTara

(30,203 posts)
2. I always thought when we are all a beautiful
Thu Aug 24, 2017, 02:14 PM
Aug 2017

shade of chocolate brown, we will not have this division. I thought that we would be closer by now. But of course, this (Trumperism) could be the last gasps of a dying breed of haters.

kwassa

(23,340 posts)
3. and most who fear immigrants have little to no contact with them ...
Thu Aug 24, 2017, 02:20 PM
Aug 2017

I've seen several articles about where Trump supporters live, and most in all-white or most all white environments.

Alice11111

(5,730 posts)
4. Agree. Most will admit it. They also hate the professional
Thu Aug 24, 2017, 02:48 PM
Aug 2017

class of any color, because fact based opinions and education threaten them. That is one reason they hated Obama so much.

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