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Posted on 12/26/2016 8:03:24 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Donald J. Trump won the white working-class vote over Hillary Clinton by a larger margin than any major-party nominee since World War II. Instead of this considerable achievement inspiring introspection, figures from the heights of journalism, entertainment, literature and the Clinton campaign continue to suggest that Mr. Trump won the presidency by appealing to the bigotry of his supporters. As Bill Clinton recently said, the one thing Mr. Trump knows “is how to get angry white men to vote for him.”
This stereotyping of Trump voters is not only illiberal, it falsely presumes Mr. Trump won because of his worst comments about women and minorities rather than despite them.
In fact, had those people who agreed that Mr. Trump lacked “a sense of decency” voted for Mrs. Clinton, she would have been elected the next president.
Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Trump equally won over party loyalists. Yet about one in five voters did not have a favorable view of either candidate. These voters overwhelmingly backed Mr. Trump. Exit polls demonstrated that if voters who disapproved of both candidates had divided evenly between them, Mrs. Clinton would have won.
Several weeks before the election, a Quinnipiac University poll found that 51 percent of white working-class voters did not believe that Mr. Trump had a “sense of decency” and ranked Mrs. Clinton slightly higher on that quality.
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It was Bill Clinton who ragged at Hillary for not going. after the same voters.
Rumor has it, that that argument got him kicked out of Hillary’s room on election night.
Yes, it did. But it was the bigotry and intolerance of the DemocRats that drove flyover country to the polls.
One of Bergoglio’s new cardinals, Joseph Tobin, said in the NYT that Trump appeals to racism.
Our first pro-abortion Pope appoints pro-abortion bishops and cardinals.
It was either that or the lamp she hurled at him.
CC
There’s always the redneck race, though (which is actually a philosophy, not a literal race, but its followers do have a certain coherence as a people). We can be redneck-ists with no shame.
Whenever I look at one of these “-ist” mud slinging words, I look for what is abuse and what isn’t, rather than just reflexively flinching from it as lefties have worked to condition us to do.
P.S. A good example of a black redneck would be FR’s own Windflier.
Go back and look at the election night coverage like CBS. They referred that Trump was winning the uneducated white male vote. Talk about being racist!! I am offended by that statement, “uneducated white males” Note that they never referred to Hillary winning the uneducated black male vote! Why not?
Interesting. David Paul Kuhn is attempting to build a framework to enable understanding of ‘what the hell happened to the culture’... he’s not there yet but the process might get him closer than what’s comfortable.
Interesting. David Paul Kuhn’s attempting to build a framework to enable understanding of ‘what the hell happened to the culture’... he’s not there yet but the process might get him closer than what’s comfortable.
I'm sure he found plenty of grieving young females to console while Hillary slept it off.
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