Posted on 12/31/2017 7:33:39 AM PST by Kaslin
Roughly a month ago, Atlantic senior editor Adam Serwer authored an article that MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell soon hailed as "mandatory reading." Titled 'The Nationalist's Delusion," the piece challenges the popular narrative that Trump's electoral triumph was propelled by the economic estrangement of white working- and middle-class voters. Rejecting this account, Serwer holds pervasive and deep-seated, if implicit, animosity toward non-white minorities as the ultimate fillip of the Trump phenomenon. To borrow from MSNBC's Van Jones, the 2016 election outcome was, in Serwer's telling, just one big case of "whitelash." Concerns over lax immigration policies, the flight of blue-collar jobs, Islamic terrorism (and obscurantism thereof), and an expressively stifling culture of political correctness were all a pretext for the maintenance of white supremacy and racial inequality.
A key data point Serwer draws on to advance this claim is Trump's "sweeping victory" across all income categories of white voters:
Trump defeated Clinton among white voters in every income category, winning by a margin of 57 to 34 among whites making less than $30,000; 56 to 37 among those making between $30,000 and $50,000; 61 to 33 for those making $50,000 to $100,000; 56 to 39 among those making $100,000 to $200,000; 50 to 45 among those making $200,000 to $250,000; and 48 to 43 among those making more than $250,000. In other words, Trump won white voters at every level of class and income. He won workers, he won managers, he won owners, he won robber barons. This is not a working-class coalition; it is a nationalist one.
Incidentally, in a veritable "white male privilege coming out party," neo-conservative writer Max Boot recently credited both Serwer and these figures, more specifically, in helping him finally "see the light" of America's endemic racism and xenophobia.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Because... he’s not Hillary.
Cause white folk be racist.
Because it’s my right as a free American? Did I do anything to stop 97% of blacks giving a racial vote to Obama? Did Irish Americans have a right to like the Kennedy? I’m sick of racist “minorities” telling me I’m a racist because I don’t want the USA to become a communist hell hole.
Most people were smart enough to vote FOR Trump. The GOPe “not Hillary candidates” all went down in flames. We like Trump and his agenda.. It is all about the agenda.
yup
We are not allowed to keep our country.
I wonder why these people are liberal “50 to 45 among those making $200,000 to $250,000”.
Serwer’s mistaken if he thinks the class envy so important and infectious among liberals is just as prevalent among conservatives. It’s not. Conservatives on the “poor” working class end of the spectrum aren’t envious of the rich, we know that without wealth who would hire us or buy our services? It’s something liberals don’t think about until they’ve driven all the employers and big consumers out of their areas.
So it’s not really surprising to see conservatives voting conservatively regardless of their economic class. Has nothing to do with race.
I didn’t vote for Trump because he was white. Hillary was white. I voted for Trump because I felt for the first time since Reagan someone running for President actually cared about the things I do ... and meant it. Simple as that.
Most people were smart enough to vote FOR Trump. The GOPe “not Hillary candidates” all went down in flames. We like Trump and his agenda.. It is all about the agenda.”
Amen! Please check my tagline re what has happened and is happening in America since Trump became our president and now in Iran.
Adam Sewer
Marxist editor for a Marxist magazine.
That’s right we need to tell the author, we’re just knuckle-draggers.
I think it’s really about the fact that he comes across as an inherently honest, plain-spoken man of integrity. We were tired of being lied to and sold-out all the time by professional politicians.
>>It is all about the agenda
“you’d be in jail”
{ crickets crickets crickets }
Hillary voters need to go to re-education camps like they have in communist countries. You know those countries they want America to be like. Then they can learn about real America and real Trump. Then they will be allowed back to America. After five years in the public again they can vote. Think they will agree the communist way is the right way.
I didn’t vote for Trump because he was white. Hillary was white!
This was what made the whole race-baiting angle to this election completely ludicrous.
Donald Trump won the 2016 election because millions of people who voted for Barack Hussein Obama TWICE voted for Trump over Hillary Clinton. How can there possibly be any racial angle to the election whatsoever when millions of Barack Obama voters supported Donald Trump over an old, haggard, wheezing white woman?
why should any right thinking American man trust Hellary to satisfy the country when she can’t even satisfy her husband in the bedroom?
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