Posted on 06/01/2016 6:28:57 AM PDT by billorites
We know that resentment is driving much of Donald Trump’s success — resentment of elites, of the political class, of illegal immigrants, of protesters, of the media — and perhaps most particularly of changes in the demographic makeup of the country that Trump and his followers find unwelcome.
Part of the explanation for the triumph of resentment is political and economic, but one question has nagged at me. What is the psychological mechanism underpinning this resentment?
Six months ago, I wrote that Donald Trump’s “presidential campaign was following the path of right-wing working class parties in Europe.” In the United States since then, Democratic politicians and the media have struggled to enter the minds of Trump voters, who are evidently enraged by the imposition of norms of political correctness that they see as enforced by “Stalinist orthodoxy.”
Trump has capitalized on the visceral belief of many white voters that government-enforced diversity and other related regulations are designed “to bring Americans to submission” by silencing their opposition to immigration — legal and illegal — to judicial orders putting low-income housing in the suburbs, and to government-mandated school integration — to name just a few of their least favorite things.
Trump’s supporters, judging from the venom with which they refer to “political correctness,” perceive the network of state, local and federal anti-discrimination laws and directives as censorious and coercive.
The furor over political correctness has been brewing for a half century, since the broad rights revolution of the 1960s, which included the passage of the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act on the heels of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The 1965 legislation and subsequent measures shifted U.S. policy to raise the total number of immigrants from Asia, Africa and Latin America and to sharply reduce the proportion of European whites.
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They don’t get it... we’re bigoted, evil, small-minded, stodgy and stupid.
And I’m a white male.
“resentment of elites, of the political class, of illegal immigrants, of protesters”
Protesters? Yeah, right. They demonstrate their propensity for violence more than anything.
The Donald’s posse is now forming up on the right.
New sheriff in town, some of the old “reliable” channels of business are going to be - realigned.
While I would agree some immigration is healthy for a society, the rampant out of control immigration from cultures that does not share our values is suicide for a nation.
Add to that the lack of assimilation and before you know it we have pockets of different cultures that have no interest in America other than what they can get from us. At what point do we question the loyalty of such people?
If we were to go to war with their native county, whose side would they be on?
He! Optimism and positivity drives both Trump's success and our support, libtard. Those are not words applicable to flacks from the Old Gray Ho.
Edsall doesn’t get it because he cannot, any more than a cat will bark.
He’s nursed on Marxist-socialist PC dogma so long, with no honest, logical assessment of it, he is incapable of ‘getting it’ about Trump and the silent majority. Lost soul.
This guy is either an idiot or a shill. Or both.
He equates “PC” with policy, rather than the bullying intimidation tactics employed to stifle dissent to policy.
A heck of a lot of Americans have a visceral reaction to bullies. The Left has made bullying their key tactic for dominating and “winning” every discussion. There are volumes worth of examples, from those laid out by Dinesh D’Sousa in “Illiberal Education” to that Mizzou professor who called for “muscle” to shut out members of the press ...
What a lot of Americans LOVE is a white hat who rides in and beats the tar out of the bully. THAT’S a big part of what Trump is tapping into.
NYT might as well start off with a whopper. It is not resentment. It is ANGER.
You know - the righteous kind.
“Edsall doesn’t get it because he cannot, any more than a cat will bark.
He’s nursed on Marxist-socialist PC dogma so long, with no honest, logical assessment of it, he is incapable of ‘getting it’ about Trump and the silent majority. Lost soul.”
Exactly right. All of the left is driven by resentment. Resentment of reality.
Resentment that dollars do not grow on trees.
Resentment that work is required to live.
Resentment that a man cannot become a woman by saying so.
Resentment that actions have consequences.
This is projection writ large.
And what’s driving Bernie Sanders’ campaign? Altruism?
More of the liberal mantra that everyone who disagrees with them is mentally ill.
This is a common theme to both the left and to Moslems. For Moslems cause and effect do not really exist. Liberals believe that reality is totally a mental construct and that cause and effect can be neutralized by thinking it all away. Then, of course because it doesn't actually work, they have to force everyone else to think the same way, then cause and effect will cease to be a factor in the world and leftist Utopia can simply be willed into existence.
Strictly speaking,this is true. Effect doesn't follow cause, instead it manifests the will of Allah. When you bring fire to a piece of paper, the fire doesn't cause the paper to burn. Allah wills the paper to burn. Allah recreates the entire universe at each instant, and what was a tree in the previous instant can be a stone in this instant. To deny that is to limit the power of Allah.
What I found strange when I was teaching in a Turkish engineering school was how the students could accept cause and effect in engineering, but still accept Islam and this view of the behavior of Allah at the same time. I still don't understand it.
“although her bite is not as lethal as Trump’s, she will soon have almost the entire Democratic Party in her corner, including a cadre of operatives whose specialty is drawing blood.”
So politics really is a blood sport after all! Get ready for the steel cage match of a lifetime and leave your crutches at the door!
Moslems do not try to be killed or maimed in the normal course of the day but they do not look out for themselves diligently and when the imam tells a Moslem it is time to die killing some infidels then it is Allah's will and he will follow through.
Fact is, the author will not admit that the problem is illegal immigration and that legal immigrants know it. The author will not admit that Political Correctness has systematically shut down free speech and delegitimized its speakers. The author cannot see conservative speakers shouted down and driven from campus. The author is not interested in the havoc wreaked by racial discrimination in college admission. The author dismisses the concerns of working class people of all races and ethnicities at the disappearance of jobs and the preferential hiring that locks them out of the market. The author considers resentment of the steady drumbeat of hostility toward Christians, toward the middle class, toward the taxpayers, toward anyone who is not a member of a Protected Class, to be unjustified and a symptom of mental deficiency. The author is far more concerned with what is wrong with the victims who feel as if they are victims when, in fact, they are.
This is not honest analysis, it is the cheapest and most degrading form of intellectual cowardice.
Thomas Edsall is a gigantic horse’s arse!
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