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The Real Reason White Americans Voted for Trump
American Thinker.com ^ | December 31, 2017 | Zachary Goldberg

Posted on 12/31/2017 7:33:39 AM PST by Kaslin

Roughly a month ago, Atlantic senior editor Adam Serwer authored an article that MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell soon hailed as "mandatory reading." Titled 'The Nationalist's Delusion," the piece challenges the popular narrative that Trump's electoral triumph was propelled by the economic estrangement of white working- and middle-class voters. Rejecting this account, Serwer holds pervasive and deep-seated, if implicit, animosity toward non-white minorities as the ultimate fillip of the Trump phenomenon. To borrow from MSNBC's Van Jones, the 2016 election outcome was, in Serwer's telling, just one big case of "whitelash." Concerns over lax immigration policies, the flight of blue-collar jobs, Islamic terrorism (and obscurantism thereof), and an expressively stifling culture of political correctness were all a pretext for the maintenance of white supremacy and racial inequality.

A key data point Serwer draws on to advance this claim is Trump's "sweeping victory" across all income categories of white voters:

Trump defeated Clinton among white voters in every income category, winning by a margin of 57 to 34 among whites making less than $30,000; 56 to 37 among those making between $30,000 and $50,000; 61 to 33 for those making $50,000 to $100,000; 56 to 39 among those making $100,000 to $200,000; 50 to 45 among those making $200,000 to $250,000; and 48 to 43 among those making more than $250,000. In other words, Trump won white voters at every level of class and income. He won workers, he won managers, he won owners, he won robber barons. This is not a working-class coalition; it is a nationalist one.

Incidentally, in a veritable "white male privilege coming out party," neo-conservative writer Max Boot recently credited both Serwer and these figures, more specifically, in helping him finally "see the light" of America's endemic racism and xenophobia.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016election; presidenttrump; trump
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To: buffyt

Diamond & Silk...


101 posted on 12/31/2017 1:07:09 PM PST by buffyt (I won't vote for any GOP who is doing NOTHING to kill Obamacare! I used to volunteer GOP campaign.)
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To: Kaslin

Did he cover he 97% of blacks perpetually voting Democrat? Across all income brackets? Across all education levels? Across “all” genders? Across all religions?


102 posted on 12/31/2017 1:09:19 PM PST by EDINVA
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To: central_va

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>> “The GOPe “not Hillary candidates” all went down in flames.” <<

A notable fact!

They didn’t even win a single state GOP primary, did they?
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103 posted on 12/31/2017 1:13:03 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Kaslin

Because Hillary was a terrible candidate and millions of people don’t support open borders and globalism!


104 posted on 12/31/2017 1:18:52 PM PST by EdnaMode
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To: dsc

We are all brothers and sisters under Gd.

The idiot who wrote this doesn’t understand how the flow of illegals hurts the communities where blacks and American Hispanics are trying hard to achieve the American Dream. There were whole blue collar industries owned by brown skinned entrepreneurs that were undercut and put out of business when illegals offered the work dirt cheap.

Often darker people have had a harder time fleeing parts of a town for better opportunities.

These examples are how illegals have actually hurt minorities worse than whites (really, here whites are the minority, but you know what I mean).


105 posted on 12/31/2017 1:22:30 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: Kaslin

Tired of carrying the weight in this country, and then being blamed for all its problems.


106 posted on 12/31/2017 1:52:31 PM PST by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: Yaelle

“We are all brothers and sisters under Gd.”

Many of God’s children remove themselves from His grace and make themselves His enemies.

They are not my brothers. They are enemies. This is even clearer in the secular realm, where enemies of the constitution are the enemies of every American.

Black, brown, or white, if you harbor malice for me because I am a white American, you are my enemy.


107 posted on 12/31/2017 1:52:53 PM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: HLPhat

108 posted on 12/31/2017 1:55:22 PM PST by Impy (I have no virtue to signal.)
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To: Hugh the Scot

>>There are no “Soviets”.

Quack, Waddle...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9OQr_0YG7E

Whatever, Huge.


109 posted on 12/31/2017 3:33:14 PM PST by HLPhat ("TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS" -- Government with any other purpose is not American.)
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To: Williams

American? Did I do anything to stop 97% of blacks giving a racial vote to Obama? Did Irish Americans have a right to like the Kennedy? I’m sick of racist “minorities” telling me I’m a racist because I don’t want the USA to become a communist hell hole.

It gives minorities great power gullible whites, and it works well to subdue their opposition. People just shut up and take it as if it were some undeclared, undiscovered,heinous crime to not give in to their own racist demands. It wouldn’t be a significant issue if the old media didn’t incessantly fan the flames.


110 posted on 12/31/2017 3:52:37 PM PST by Neoliberalnot (MSM is our greatest threat. Disney, Comcast, Hollywood, NYTimes, WaPo, CNN, NBC, CBS...)
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To: HLPhat

WW2 victory day parade... So what, loon?


111 posted on 12/31/2017 4:00:04 PM PST by Hugh the Scot ("The days of being a keyboard commando are over. It's time to get some bloody knuckles." -Drew68)
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To: HLPhat

I hope what you object to does come to pass. You have legitimate concerns. Patience may yet have its rewards.


112 posted on 12/31/2017 4:06:36 PM PST by Neoliberalnot (MSM is our greatest threat. Disney, Comcast, Hollywood, NYTimes, WaPo, CNN, NBC, CBS...)
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To: DJ Taylor

The historical facts are changing, make no mistake about that. The left has taken the reigns to rewrite history. Book burning has offered a south on in the past and as we all know, history is a repetitious art.


113 posted on 12/31/2017 4:11:35 PM PST by Neoliberalnot (MSM is our greatest threat. Disney, Comcast, Hollywood, NYTimes, WaPo, CNN, NBC, CBS...)
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To: Bringbackthedraft

business of America is business, why should we want another lawyer to run the country? They’ve done such great jobs in the past? “”

We shouldn’t. Lawyers run most every branch in every government entity from high to low. They make the laws that benefit their own profession. I’ll say it again, lawyers should be restricted to serving only in the judicial branch of government.


114 posted on 12/31/2017 4:17:41 PM PST by Neoliberalnot (MSM is our greatest threat. Disney, Comcast, Hollywood, NYTimes, WaPo, CNN, NBC, CBS...)
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To: A_perfect_lady

A very interesting take. What black male though doesn’t want a blonde for a girlfriend and even a wife? Go figure that one.


115 posted on 12/31/2017 4:21:18 PM PST by Neoliberalnot (MSM is our greatest threat. Disney, Comcast, Hollywood, NYTimes, WaPo, CNN, NBC, CBS...)
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To: Jim Noble

When 97% of whites vote for the non-Democrat, no Democrat will ever win another national or state-wide election.
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One can only hope you are right and it will happen.


116 posted on 12/31/2017 4:23:00 PM PST by Neoliberalnot (MSM is our greatest threat. Disney, Comcast, Hollywood, NYTimes, WaPo, CNN, NBC, CBS...)
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To: Brooklyn Attitude

You got the right idea and attitude to go with it.


117 posted on 12/31/2017 4:28:29 PM PST by Neoliberalnot (MSM is our greatest threat. Disney, Comcast, Hollywood, NYTimes, WaPo, CNN, NBC, CBS...)
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To: Neoliberalnot
They want us the same way they want a fast car; to arouse the envy of other men. But they don't care about our rights or issues in the slightest. (I think the OJ Simpson murder trial said it all.)

In fact, to go a step further, the black community by and large does not concern itself with anything outside its own interests. I suppose most cultures are like that. Whites are the only ones foolish enough to put themselves on the line for others who will never return the favor.

118 posted on 12/31/2017 6:48:51 PM PST by A_perfect_lady
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To: pepsi_junkie
I didn’t vote for Trump because he was white. Hillary was white

Trump won among white women, 53-46

119 posted on 12/31/2017 6:51:45 PM PST by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: Kaslin

The reason I started voting Republican in the first place is because of white liberals pushing affirmative action and at the same time berating whites for being racist and then gaining power through the process.


120 posted on 12/31/2017 8:55:50 PM PST by Crucial
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