Did racism or a longing for authoritarian leadership elect Donald Trump? The right answer is both

[DonViejo]

TUESDAY, APR 18, 2017

Did racism or a longing for authoritarian leadership elect Donald Trump? The right answer is both

New data suggests Trump voters have highly negative views of African-Americans. But that's not the whole story

HEATHER DIGBY PARTON

I don’t think I’ve ever experienced an election in which there was so much disagreement after the fact about what led to the result. The postmortems are endless this time and we don’t seem to be getting any closer to a consensus. It’s understandable that people would be intensely curious to figure out why there was such a pronounced and unprecedented split between the winner of the popular vote and the winner of the Electoral College. That has been an exceedingly rare occurrence — in the era of popular elections, it happened only once before 2000 — that is suddenly the norm for Republican presidential victories. Something isn’t working quite right in our democracy, and it stands to reason that people would want to find out what it is.

Much of the debate on this issue has been whether the reason for Donald Trump’s narrow victory in certain states was because of economic anxiety or racism, xenophobia, sexism and resistance to the changing demographic makeup of the nation. The main question centers around non-college-educated whites who had voted for President Barack Obama twice but changed to Trump in 2016.

The criticism of Hillary Clinton’s campaign has been that she spent too much time talking about “identity politics” and not enough time talking about economics, which made members of the white working class who felt particularly anxious about their futures turn to the man who promised to “bring back jobs.” Considering the long-term degradation of the manufacturing base and the recent economic catastrophe associated with the 2007 financial crisis and ensuing Great Recession, it’s not unreasonable to make that assumption.

On the other hand, it’s impossible to ignore the blatantly racist, xenophobic and sexist appeal of the Trump campaign and dismiss the likelihood that it was central to his win. His campaign was organized around demonizing “the other” from the moment he descending that golden elevator and declared that Mexicans were rapists and criminals. From then on his entire pitch was aimed at foreigners or American “bad dudes” whom he pledged to deport, defeat, demoralize or destroy. His “American carnage” worldview was a white nationalist refrain aimed directly at the ugly American racist id.

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http://www.salon.com/2017/04/18/did-racism-or-a-longing-for-authoritarian-leadership-elect-donald-trump-the-right-answer-is-both/

[gopiscrap]

1. also a lack of civics education, a sense of entitlement, a politically wired adhd society

but most all CHEATING pure and fucking simple trump and his assholes cheated, sold out the country for 30 pieces of political silver to the Russians

[Squinch]

2. None of these articles ever puts sexism in the headline. SMH.

And that study didn't really ask much about sexism. It's like we're all looking away from a mugging as it happens because we really don't like the victim.

[Igel]

3. It examined the role of a small set of factors.

And the top winner was taken as the "real" reason for his election

Haven't looked at data collection, coding, or analysis. But it's easy to find what you look for.

[Squinch]

4. What? What is it you think I am looking for? Did you mean to respond to another post?

[flying rabbit]

5. Looks like the poster is referring to the article

not you.

[Hortensis]

6. Also a huge hostility toward what Democrats supposedly

want to do to their country. When the end of the cold war left the right without a big external enemy to fight, they looked inward and we were elected.

It may be more subtle in bluer areas, but here in the deep south this hostility is so normal that gross rudeness and hostile stares from those who want to act out are common.

Rush hasn't started half his segments for decades by warning people about what the Democrats are up to now. Most of the right is now trained to believe anything Democrats want should be opposed. No real need to know more.

[PoliticalPie]

7. That is propaganda that began too be pushed after Brexit and as Trump rose. The election was stolen.

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There may have been Russian involvement, and there are the leaks, but the real reason was the removal of 20 to 30 million voters in the red states.
The knew they would win as early as Scalia's death.
The noise that Hillary campaign fixed the vote is false, all dirty political tricks by conservatives and hidden as caused by Democratic themselves. I see, especially here in DU the same kind of conservative driven division Bernie versus the Democratic Party.

https://www.publicintegrity.org/2016/08/22/20079/america-scrubs-millions-voter-rolls-it-fair

https://thinkprogress.org/2016-a-case-study-in-voter-suppression-258b5f90ddcd

https://thinkprogress.org/study-finds-republican-voter-suppression-is-even-more-effective-than-you-think-3b2562ae2f52

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/the-gops-stealth-war-against-voters-w435890

They are still busy removing voters:

http://goldismoney2.com/threads/wv-sos-office-removes-more-than-47-000-names-from-voter-rolls-this-year.141917/