What Trump understands about white identity politics

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http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/17/politics/trump-white-identity-politics/index.html

by Nia-Malika Henderson, Senior Political Reporter, CNN

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While President Barack Obama clearly had a special connection to African-Americans because of what he represented in terms of race, identity and history, Trump seems to have a similar connection with white voters for reasons that can't be separated from race, identity and history.

The Trump campaign, and now the Trump presidency, is infused with identity politics, just not the kind reporters, pundits, pollsters and political strategists tend to talk about that often: white identity politics and the politics of white resentment.

Trump ran on the promise of restoration, a nostalgia for a time gone by, and the sense that America, particularly white America, is losing and has been for many years.

In this scenario, Trump is the foremost culture warrior and defender.

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[applegrove]

1. Bannon was bullshitting when he said democraticidentity politics

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will loose. He was just trying to tamp down the honest outrage at the neo-Nazis. IMHO Businesses cannot be seen palling around with Trump anymore and Bannon did not want that to grow and solidify. Business is 1/3 of Trump's coalition. "Off the record"my ass. I mean Bannon cut the Nazis down to size. Of course he is trying to mitigate people's anger around the country. Alt right are the only part of Trump's coalition Bannon controls. No faction? No Bannon in the white House. And really sussing out the Nazi mother****ers and their hateful idealogy, like what the USA is doing, is going to shrink them in size and power.

[Egnever]

2. Trump doesn't understand shit

If he did he wouldn't have done what he did in his conference.

What Trump is is a racist and like many racists he knows the racist language.

The places that voted for him were almost all the little hayseed towns that are dying because market forces no longer need them . They don't understand what is killing them so they are ready to blame anyone in an attempt to cling to their little dumbfuckistans.

When you live in these places you know all your neighbors and they all mostly look like you . It is easy for these people to blame the other they know nothing about them.

Trump is the beneficiary of a flawed party that has catered to racists for decades and a party that was more interested in giving Clinton her turn than understanding how hated she was by a large portion of the country.

He is not savy he has done absolutely nothing to show her has any brains about anything. He was the most racist candidate in a party built on racism and it was enough to get him the nomination and hate for Clinton carried him the rest of the way.

He has zero accomplishments as president zero pretending he is an evil genius is bullshit.

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3. This has been pretty obvious, especially to people of color I believe.

Trump started his campaign characterizing Mexican immigrants as drug dealers, criminals, rapists...His message to Black people was that they live in "hell holes" where they could be shot at any minute.

It has always been obvious that Trump was playing on racial fear and resentment. Trump is more vocal about it but this has been a Republican thing since Nixon and the Southern Strategy.

[applegrove]

4. And now Trump and the GOP are fighting over who will own the southern

strategy and what it will look like.