Posted on 08/11/2015 2:31:05 PM PDT by Sir Napsalot
Memo to pollsters: while I’m having as much fun as everyone else watching the unsinkable Donald defy predictions of his assured collapse, what I really want to see at this point is a profile of his supporters. What characteristics predispose someone to like this guy, as opposed to accepting the establishment candidates?
The reason I’d like to see such a poll is that I suspect that both conservative and liberal pundits are still getting the Trump phenomenon wrong. And yes, that’s the kind of statement — hey, left and right both wrong! — that I usually hate when other pundits do it. But in my case it’s not knee-jerk centrism, it’s an informed guess based on some related evidence.
Right now, the conservative explanation of the GOP’s onset of DTs is, as best I can figure, that base voters are victims of celebrity; what they really want is a true conservative, but they’re being hijacked and hoodwinked by someone who makes good TV.
Meanwhile, the liberal version, as I’ve seen it, seems to be that Trump is appealing to resentment that ultimately rests on economic failure: working-class whites have been left behind by soaring inequality, but they mistakenly blame immigrants taking their jobs.
But are Trumpists being hoodwinked? Are they members of the suffering working class who don’t understand why they’re hurting? OK, here’s my guess: they look a lot like Tea Party supporters. And we do know a fair bit about that group.
First of all, Tea Party supporters are for the most part not working-class, at least in the senses that group is often defined. They’re relatively affluent, and not especially lacking in college degrees.
(Excerpt) Read more at krugman.blogs.nytimes.com ...
Contrast that to the hit piece from WaPo. Donald Trump’s surge is all about less-educated Americans
We are still ‘affluent white racists’, have no fear.
True AMERICANS fed up with the Uniparty government we have been subjected to that is taking the USA towards a one world Agenda 21 government of masters and slaves.
Now Trumpbots support Krugman. Wake me when they get to Chomsky.
That's a knee-slapper right there, Paul.
Unfair assessment.
Linking to articles to generate discussion like all posts on FR, it doesn’t not mean (1) I support Trump, nor (2) I agree 100% with what Krugman says.
Besides, I also want to get a clearer picture of who Trump supporters are.
So far we’ve been profiled as crazies”,”angry”,”hoodwinked” and “star-struck”. They think we made our decision to support Trump lightly and that we are fickle enough to abandon him on the slightest criticism.
Yet we are not any of the above.
I’m proud to be a “Crazie”.
What is with these mondodismos?
Look in the mirror! You are in an Elite DC political class bubble! WOW, what arrogance! Take a gosh darn road trip and find America!!!!!
Or you ask Senator Cruz to explain it to you, he would do an excellent job.
I would send you to Trump, but Mr. Trump’s eloquence is laced with a lot of testosterone, I don’t believe as a DC elite jooornalist you would understand.
Oh get over yourself; you anti-Trump troller!
I can’t stand that POS.
Yip! We’ze all tobaccy-chewin’ white men a-living in the hollers of Wes’ Virginny and hopin’ the Yankees don’ win this here war and somebody he’ps us with the cotton crop this year. Gotta go now, Marsh Krugman, mah wife jus’ give birth to our second two-headed young’un in the Lower 40. Here’s hopin’ The Donald’ll be the next prizedent and help share’n his corn seed with us’n. Bless yer heart!
= conservative
No Krugman is habitually wrong 24/7.
Or was your inane post supposed to mean something else? If so, learn to write complete sentences.
Anti-Trump trolls = conservative.
Right. We must be racist.
These people are as predictable, boring, and wrong as can be. They just never get it, and they can’t understand why some of us like it when a candidate freely shows that he “gets” what is important to us peons.
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