Posted on 05/02/2018 6:59:09 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Why did working-class voters choose a selfish, thin-skinned, petulant, lying, narcissistic, boastful megalomaniac for president?
With the 2018 midterms around the corner, and prospective Democratic candidates already eyeing the 2020 presidential race, the answer is important because it will influence how Democrats campaign.
One explanation focuses on economic hardship. The working class fell for Mr. Trump's economic populism.
A competing explanation -- which got a boost this week from a study published by the National Academy of Sciences -- dismisses economic hardship and blames it on whites' fear of losing status to blacks and immigrants. They were attracted to Mr. Trump's form of identity politics: bigotry.
If Democrats accept the bigotry explanation, they may be more inclined to foster their own identity politics of women, blacks and Latinos. And they'll be less inclined to come up with credible solutions to widening inequality and growing economic insecurity.
Yet the truth isn't found in one explanation or the other. It's in the interplay between the two.
Mr. Trump isn't the cause of what's happened to America. He's the consequence -- the product of years of stagnant wages and big money's corruption of our democracy.
If they really want to stop Mr. Trump and prevent future Trumps, Democrats will need to address these causes of Mr. Trump's rise.
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...
This Malignant Dwarf is the guy who wanted to make sure that none of 0bama’s “shovel ready jobs(remember those) went to white guys.
What a bunch of bull sh#t.
There is no redeeming value or some new revelation about the Left here. It’s more stupidity leading the stupid - same old Leftist bull sh#t.
Why post this crap? FR, please stop posting anything and everything the Left spews out. It demoralizes, does not help our cause, and makes FR look like a Leftist site which some have thought it is.
“...government-guaranteed full employment, single-payer health care, industry-wide collective bargaining and a universal basic income...” paid for with a progressive tax on wealth.
How would anyone produce wealth under these circumstances?
Seems like the Venezuelan model. Everyone is left with nothing except for a few elites.
Someone needs to remind the Professor that the Obama Campaign made the conscious decision to jettison white working-class voters. They thought the Democrat Party would no longer need them.
That message was received, and understood.
If he wants to have a tantrum over this he should be blaming Obama.
Well played sir!
Nice.
HAHA!
It’s guaranteed they will. WAAAAAAAACISM! is always the “explanation” Leftists prefer whenever somebody does not agree with their politics. They never learn.
If people don’t get out and vote it will happen.
I'm still trying to figure out why anyone would have voted for Barry myself. :-)
There’s the Rub! They can’t claim to want to create new jobs for AmeriCANS! Trump has already taken care of that with our now statistical full employment rate. As for the racial aspect. The only times that happens is when antifa stops conservative voices or blacks throw blood at and or destroy confederate statues and symbols. And that just outs them as the intolerant and anti American use of process instead of just committing crimes to get their way forcibly.
Or hammers and sickles.
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