NR is not a publication for the Republican “elite,” for starters. And what is this mincing words about white welfare class? Do they mean what used to be called “white trash”? They are now a tiny subset of society, vastly outnumbered by black and hispanic “trash.” All of whom are pretty much Democrats anyway, aren’t they?
So what is the point, except to make white people afraid to vote Trump lest they begin to identify as losers? Am I just not getting it?
The author does a poor job by lumping in “poor” and “lo income” whites with the “white working class”, although in his defense, the last few Presidents/Congresses have done a god job of making them increasingly the same thing!
I live in the country (northern New England).
The loss of employment for former industrial workers and their children is a catastrophe, as is the chronic inflation which robbed their labor of value before it disappeared.
It’s fueling the so-called “heroin crisis”, and tons of other social pathology. These people are good folks and hard workers, but they aren’t going to become video game writers or Facebook docents.
They need a place to go to work where, if you show up on time and do what the supervisor asks, you do OK. They need a school where if they learn a trade, work hard, and have average or above intelligence, you can make a good life for themselves and their kids.
Globalists and globalism has these people in the crosshairs. 100% of them voted for Trump or Sanders in February. If these people are to be crushed, there is no America, just a province of the United Colors of Benneton.
Wake up America.
NR is indeed the mouthpiece for the GOP establishment aka elite.
Whatever the % of these white voters - the point of the article is they lost their political voice - the establishment does not care, regardless of the % of the population. Also, I don’t think these white populations mentioned in the article are vastly outnumbered by black or hispanics, do you even know the %?
In any case, whatever their population % they are being ignored while black and hispanics and other groups (upper class whites, urban whites) are not being ignored.
I honestly find your post willfully ignorant in its points.
The facts contradict you.
That depends on what you mean by "for." I doubt the readers are all Rockefellers, but the people who put out the magazine have turned themselves into an "elite" having access to higher political circles. True, they aren't the old Republican Establishment. They are the new Establishment that (in part at least) replaced them.
And what is this mincing words about white welfare class? Do they mean what used to be called “white trash”?
Williamson mashes together the "white underclass," "the white working class" and Trump supporters into one (more or less) homogeneous group, and speaks of "the white working class’s descent into dysfunction," as though most non-college Americans were drug-addicts. He gives himself some outs, using "underclass" rather than "working class" in some key places, but it's a very snarky article without a clear and well-defined focus.
So what is the point, except to make white people afraid to vote Trump lest they begin to identify as losers? Am I just not getting it?
That's exactly the point. What makes you think you're not getting it?