2016 was never about economic anxiety

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9. "Economic anxiety" was a rhetorical cover for "racists' anxiety"

during the campaign, the economy was, by all standard measures, quite good, certainly good enough for political purposes to strongly support the incumbent's party.

we had near-full employment. there's always turnover in jobs, but *real* economic anxiety happens when losing your jobs means you're unemployed for a year because the unemployment rate is 10%, not 4% or whatever it was by november 2016.

as has become clear, donnie's agenda, certainly his rhetorical agenda, is nearly entirely about race and bigotry and misogyny and hatred. the only "anxiety" he appealed to was the anxiety of bigots who feared that changes like having a black president, and heaven forbid, a woman president, might mean they can no longer go around feeling superior simply because of the color of their skin or the shape of their genitals.

if they really had *economic* anxiety, they would have voted for the party that had just rescued us from financial calamity and steadily improved the economy for eight years.

what they had was *bigots'* anxiety, the fear of losing their precious, unmerited privilege.

they only called it "economic" anxiety because the truth wouldn't have played well....