Where Donald Trump’s support really comes from

The Economist ^ | Apr 20th 2016

[detective]

MOST analysis of Donald Trump’s support in the primary elections has focused on his appeal to poorer, working-class white voters, who are assumed to have lost the most to globalisation and are more open to his particular brand of populist politics. But his victory in the New York Republican primary on April 19th underscored his wider support across the party’s base. Mr Trump took 61% of the vote overall (the first time he has gained over 50%) winning across all demographic groups. That was to be expected in his home state. However, averaging out his support in all state primaries (where exit polling is available) shows that richer and better educated voters form as big a part of Mr Trump’s support base as those at the lower end of the income and education scales.

[RedWulf]

>If you think the globalists view ordinary citizens as sheep,

I don't think it, I know it. I've seen the depravity and despair in the formerly booming industrial towns. Towns that used to be filled with hard working Christian families are now nothing but open air meth dens. People who spent their entire lives working are now stuck on government assistance while their kids burn away their lives on drugs. Globalism is a Marxist scam and the people who support it are traitors.

We're like the Romans who conquered the world who then destroyed their own yeoman class of farmers because of the elites greed. I will not support candidates like Cruz who want to continue the rape of American workers.

[SauronOfMordor]

My kid in college also tells me about people for Bernie who would rather vote Trump than Hillary.

[kabar]

The Democrats are creating unintentionally, a white identity in this country. We are being Balkanized along racial, ethnic, and linguistic lines that will tear the fabric of the country apart. Mass immigration is the main reason. Within ten years we will have the highest percentage of foreign born in our history as a nation. The US may think we are immune to the divisive impact of multiculturalism and diversity, but those that consider them strengths will reap the whirlwind.

The Dems continue to play identity politics. There is a reason why they favor more immigration and amnesty. Immigrants and minorities vote more than two to one Dem. They will soon make the Dems the permanent majority party. Trump's nationalism and populism could penetrate traditional Dem constituencies. Blacks are being hurt the most by immigration, legal and illegal. But so are Hispanics and low income whites. It is the reason why we have the lowest labor participation rates in 38 years.

Conservatives are fixated on the Constitution, limited government, and lower taxes. The problem is demographics. Minorities and immigrants, generally, don't care about these issues. In fact, they want bigger government with more services. And most pay no or very little income taxes. America as we know it will be lost thru the ballot box.

[kabar]

If you want to see and listen to something truly disgusting, watch Cruz's support of his Amendment 5 that proposed to increase H-1B visas by 500%. His use of a discredited Brooking report is mind-numbing. FYI: Sessions voted against this amendment.

Cruz is no defender of the American worker despite his recent conversion on the way to Cleveland. He is a tool of the Chamber of Commerce and the Club for Growth.

[kabar]

He may have been joking, but he was right about shooting someone of Fifth Avenue and his supporters wouldn't care.

That should give the RNC and Cruz pause if they try to steal the nomination from the front runner who has the most delegates, votes received, and states won--by far. Without the support of the Trump voters, the GOP is doomed for a smashing defeat at all levels. Trump voters will not stand for the theft of the nomination and will react accordingly in November.

[wardaddy]

I’m 58

I remember being more moderate in 83 I think and my columbia university grad paramour when we were living in her grad student housing bringing home a copy of TNR and I think Stanley Kaufman in a movie review was questioning this new term political correctness

My rather lib gal even then thought it silly and Trotskyist

Little did we know

Demographics is destiny is infantry here

But Hollywood and media are the masters

Academia plays a role too

We basically have two countries in the same border

And one side needs to bang out more kids but female validation gets in the way

It’s gloomy

If there is a war and we lose partitioning or whatever

They will wipe us out

They are not bound by much humanistic tradition

It’ll be a real dark ages this time

[kabar]

I am 73. College in the 60s. Served in Vietnam. We are a far different country than what we were when I became an adult. We have lost a basic political consensus due to the massive and continuous influx of immigrants, most from the Third World. We are being colonized.

And one side needs to bang out more kids but female validation gets in the way

Immigrants and their children account for 80% of our population growth. The liberals just import more immigrants to make up for their lower birthrates. It has been part of their strategy since the 1965 Immigration Act that changed the demography of America forever.

The 1965 Immigration Act: Anatomy of a Disaster

Most Children Younger Than Age 1 are Minorities, Census Bureau Reports--The U.S. Census Bureau today released a set of estimates showing that 50.4 percent of our nation's population younger than age 1 were minorities as of July 1, 2011. This is up from 49.5 percent from the 2010 Census taken April 1, 2010. A minority is anyone who is not single-race white and not Hispanic.

International Migration is Projected to Become Primary Driver of U.S. Population Growth for First Time in Nearly Two Centuries--International migration is projected to surpass natural increase (births minus deaths) as the principal driver of U.S. population growth by the middle of this century, according to three new series of population projections released today by the U.S. Census Bureau. This scenario would mark the first time that natural increase was not the leading cause of population increase since at least 1850, when the census began collecting information about residents' country of birth. The shift in what drives U.S. population growth is projected to occur between 2027 and 2038, depending on the future level of international migration.

"Our nation has had higher immigration rates in the past, particularly during the great waves of the late 19th and early 20th centuries," said Thomas Mesenbourg, the Census Bureau's senior adviser. "This projected milestone reflects the mix of our nation's declining fertility rates, the aging of the baby boomer population and continued immigration."

[Lazamataz]

You are an a&&hat among all other a&&hats.

You a&&hat you.

[Lazamataz]

You are a demon-possessed evil nasty stinking horrid little wrinkle of a woman.

[musicman]

“You need to learn the rules here.”

Yes YOU do.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3424005/posts

President Hillary is totally unacceptable!

Jim Robinson’s quote from the thread header:

“If you are a NeverTrump type person, you are working against our purposes on FR, so please opus out now and log off and let us carry on with our mission in peace.”

“Continue insulting us with 24/7 anti-Trump diatribes and insults, your opus will be assumed.”

[detective]

“Hillary Clinton has a loyal base. They ARE democrats remember and democrats do not mind corruption in their leaders as long as they get their entitlements.

To say that Trump has undergone a thorough attack is ridiculous.

No news outlet has gone after him at all on the many, many areas in which he is vulnerable.

If he should get the nomination all that will change.

A little black book? Hillary has a big black warehouse of stuff she can bring out about Trump.

You have to be naive to think the media has gone after Trump; they love Trump ... he’s good copy.”

Hillary Clinton's so called “loyal base” is tiny. Few people trust her. Few people like her. Few people want her to be president.

Her rallies are usually a few hundred people most of whom are pressured or paid to be there. I live among liberals. None of them like Hillary Clinton. I have not heard one say he or she supports her.

Read the media or watch TV if you don't think Trump has been continually attacked. No other candidate has been continually called a racist, a bigot, a hater of women etc.

The media has gone through his past to try to find bad things about him. The media will try to destroy ANY Republican candidate. Trump is the only one who has shown he can stand up to the media and their leftist attack machine.

Hillary's attacks on Trump will not work. Her attack dogs and their politics of personal destruction have lost their credibility. No one believes them.

Trump is the only Republican politician who will stand up to the Clintons and attack back. The Clinton machine has never faced a counter puncher. They have defeated Bush and Dole with the help of Ross Perot and the media. Bush and Dole refused to articulate the problems with the Clintons. They just allowed themselves to be used as punching bags.

Trump will fight back.

If you think a wimpy, politically correct candidate will win, then that is your opinion. I think we need someone who will attack Clinton and the rest of the corrupt Democrat Party.

[detective]

“If I may offer a bit of advice... nobody clicks on links.

And nobody clicks on multiple links.

You would do better to make your own comments.”

Thank you for the advice.

I try to rely on the intelligence and intellectual curiosity of my fellow FReepers.