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Trump Has Turned It Up to 11
The New York Times ^ | Oct. 16, 2024 | Thomas B. Edsall

Posted on 10/16/2024 4:07:31 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

Donald Trump is so dependent on racial and ethnic antagonism that without it, he would be a marginal figure, relegated to the sidelines.

Trump’s constant demonization of Black people and immigrants has inured the public to the fact that he is the first — or certainly the most explicit — modern president and party nominee to transparently generate, not to mention exacerbate, fear and white animosity toward people of color.

Despite his appeal to a small if potentially crucial segment of Black and Hispanic men, racial bigotry has been central to Trump’s appeal from his initial quest, in 2015 and 2016, to take over the Republican Party. In the closing days of the 2024 election, he continues to foment race hatred and to rely on it ever more intently.

The 2018 book “Identity Crisis: The 2016 Presidential Campaign and the Battle for the Meaning of America,” by the political scientists John Sides, Michael Tesler and Lynn Vavreck, documented the success of Trump’s strategy.

“Trump was distinctive in how he tapped into white grievance,” they wrote. “Trump’s primary campaign became a vehicle for a different kind of identity politics” — one oriented toward capitalizing on the feeling of many white people that they were being “pushed aside in an increasingly diverse America.”

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To: E. Pluribus Unum

These people are nuts. As simple as that. How did he ever get that nonsensical piece past an editor?


41 posted on 10/16/2024 7:06:11 PM PDT by MNnice
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Projection. It’s all liberals have. Nada mas.


42 posted on 10/16/2024 7:40:57 PM PDT by Tudorfly (All things are possible within the will of God.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Wow, they’re really rending their garments over there at the NYTimes.


43 posted on 10/16/2024 7:48:23 PM PDT by hellinahandcart
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Never heard this from True, only from MSM saying TDS


44 posted on 10/16/2024 8:46:46 PM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

This guy is so full of $hit his eyes are brown.


45 posted on 10/16/2024 9:34:48 PM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Finish the damned WALL! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH! )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

As his candidate race shames voters and tells them they will make week legal, because thats what they think of them.


46 posted on 10/16/2024 10:12:03 PM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

TFYM when you discover that your selected candidate is a whining imbeciles mean vindictive whitch


47 posted on 10/17/2024 6:15:42 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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