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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNYT tells 2020 Dems to avoid scaring white people -- at all costs
Published 8 hours ago
on September 3, 2019
By Salon
Thomas Edsalls demographic analysis is almost always misleading (FAIR.org, 2/10/15, 10/9/15, 6/5/16, 3/30/18, 7/24/19) and his latest column for the New York Times is no exception.
We Arent Seeing White Support for Trump for What It Is, the headline complains with the subhead explaining, A crucial part of his coalition is made up of better-off white people who did not graduate from college.
Why does this matter? Edsalls column is largely a write-up of a paper by two political scientists, Herbert Kitschelt and Philipp Rehm, who note that better-off whites without college degrees tend to endorse authoritarian noneconomic policies and tend to oppose progressive economic policies, and are therefore a constituency that is now decisively committed to the Republican Party. (By authoritarian policies, the researchers are mainly talking about racism and xenophobia.) Low-income, low-education whites, by contrast, tend to support progressive economic policies and tend to endorse authoritarian policies on the noneconomic dimension, and are therefore conflicted in their partisan allegiance.
Whats at stake in presenting one of these constituencies as crucial is how you approach the task of defeating Trump: If hes turning out his key supporters through race-baiting and immigrant-bashing, the argument goes, then Democrats need to take care not to be too outspoken on issues of race and immigration. And so Edsall confidently concludes:
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/09/nyt-tells-2020-dems-to-avoid-scaring-white-people-at-all-costs/
I was listening to Signal Boost on Sirus XM on this subject today......................as for this Edsall character...............our party is inclusive.........................your op-ed................and it's subject matter is disingenuous.......................
maxsolomon
(33,345 posts)Is it on the left side of the Opinion page, under the masthead? No?
Then the NYT isn't "telling 2020 Dems" shit, Salon.
Kurt V.
(5,624 posts)maxsolomon
(33,345 posts)I'll direct my ire at Rawstory.
saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)You saved me a lot of time and cuffing up to check my blood pressure.
TheRealNorth
(9,481 posts)In my opinion, if the Dems run on issues instead of identity politics (and we don't let the media try to define our candidate using identity politics), we should be okay.