Posted on 10/03/2015 11:47:06 AM PDT by Petrosius
While conducting extensive surveys of white voters in 1971 and again in 1975, Warren identified a group who defied the usual partisan and ideological divisions. These voters were not college educated; their income fell somewhere in the middle or lower-middle range; and they primarily held skilled and semi-skilled blue-collar jobs or sales and clerical white-collar jobs.…
Warren called these voters Middle American Radicals, or MARS. “MARS are distinct in the depth of their feeling that the middle class has been seriously neglected,” Warren wrote. They saw “government as favoring both the rich and the poor simultaneously.” Like many on the left, MARS were deeply suspicious of big business… MARS also backed many liberal programs: By a large percentage, they favored government guaranteeing jobs to everyone; and they supported price controls, Medicare, some kind of national health insurance, federal aid to education, and Social Security.
On the other hand, they held very conservative positions on poverty and race. They were the least likely to agree that whites had any responsibility “to make up for wrongs done to blacks in the past,” they were the most critical of welfare agencies, they rejected racial busing, and they wanted to grant police a “heavier hand” to “control crime.” They were also the group most distrustful of the national government. And in a stand that wasn’t really liberal or conservative (and that appeared, at least on the surface, to be in tension with their dislike of the national government), MARS were more likely than any other group to favor strong leadership in Washington—to advocate for a situation “when one person is in charge.”
If these voters are beginning to sound familiar, they should: Warren’s MARS of the 1970s are the Donald Trump supporters of today.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationaljournal.com ...
Trump is polling well in different sections of the GOP and among independents and Democrats as well, and some of his supporters in those circles may have different views.
Possibly but I think his appeal has less to do with policies than persona. Either way, there's no way to know at this point barring some other type of polling data.
My response was based on my experience here only.
By describing Trump’s supporters the way he did he tells me everything about what he thinks Trump’s appeal is. If that’s what he thinks it’s no wonder he adheres to socialism which is an ideology of non-thinking robotic serfs serving a tyrannical overlord class of law givers. No matter how reasonably he presents it I don’t need to read any further exegesis on his opinion of liberty-minded people drawn from that delusional mindset.
With his numbers TRUMP would WIN the general election....
So...the most important cleavage to support...;)
would be the rift between snotty rich republicans “who consider themselves morally superior”....and the middle class mass.....in order to throw the primaries ....enter Ben Carson.
Carson said “” the doctor replied: “It depends on where you live. I think if you live in the midst of a lot of people, and I’m afraid that that semi-automatic weapon is going to fall into the hands of a crazy person, I would rather you not have it,” Carson elaborated. However, if you live “out in the country somewhere by yourself” and want to own a semi-automatic weapon, he added, “I’ve no problem with that.”
Carson said “”just because they get the fetal tissue [by abortion], does it mean they should throw it out? Of course they don’t.”
“That’s how science is advanced,” he said.
So hes OK with gun control by location...and Aborted baby stem cell research.....isnt that nice?
The guy scores low on my lie-o-meter...TRUMP scores High.
TTTTTTTTRRRRRRRRump...TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP
The way I see it is: The little people. The nothings. The common clay of Nowheresville America. You know, the backbone of America.
Although I have a college degree most of my family does not and I a proud to be of a blue collar background. Those whom the author is describing are the Reagan Democrats. It is interesting that he would make a comparison to the supporters of Wallace, Perot and Buchanan, all who lost, and leave out those of Reagan, who won.
To him people have no value unless they become faceless socialist drones. To me people have value unless they throw it away. Like a faceless socialist drone does. And all they have to do to recover their value is reclaim it and reject the idea that it's given to them by the state in return for obediance.
Of course you do. You're not a socialist who thinks that societies are built and supported by the brain farts of drug addled Ivy League professors.
Trump isn’t conservative, nor is he liberal. He not much constrained by ideology or political philosophy. .I guess if he thought about he might just say he’s American.
That is probably a foreign concept to many young people. But those of us of a certain age know exactly what it means, or, I should say, what it meant...
And, in spite of this writer’s conclusion, people like this were both highly educated and lacking education past high school. All kinds of backgrounds.
This writer has his own world view and an investment in keeping it true, for him.
That is probably a foreign concept to many young people. But those of us of a certain age know exactly what it means, or, I should say, what it meant...
Okay, but that makes Trump look strange to journalists who are all about pigeon-holing politicians and people on the basis of ideology.
I can see where all Judis's sociological pigeon-holing by class levels can get under people's skin.
That's sort of what you'd expect from the media. I thought the idea of Trump as not really left or right was the more interesting part of the article.
Perot might be a good parallel. He drew support from widely different parts of the population. Still, he was stronger among some groups than others, and if a writer wanted to marginalize him, that's what he'd focus on.
I know lots of white Democrats who would laugh at the idea that people are basically good.
The key to the white Democrat vote is to understand that they hate their party’s leaders, but hate their local Republicans more.
Tell the truth - if you knew them, you’d hate them, too.
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