Taibbi: The 2016 Election Is Now All About White Victimhood
Well. we certainly have hear a lot about victim-hood---from the teaparty-Republicans.
Sat Sep 05, 2015 at 05:19 PM PDT
Taibbi: The 2016 Election Is Now All About White Victimhood
by Dartagnan
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The 2016 Presidential election is no longer about taxes, health care, income inequality, "religious freedom," education, foreign entanglements, climate change, the economy, jobs or employment. According to Matt Taibbi, writing for Rolling Stone, the Trumpification of the Republican Party has turned the entire American political debate into a full-blown war over race, and specifically the terrible time of it that whites have had in this country.
Trump's supporters are people who are tired of being told they have to be part of some kind of coalition in order to have a political voice. They particularly hate being lectured about alienating minorities, especially by members of their own party.
Taibbi notes that the Republican base's collective, almost instinctual impulse to shrug off reams of polling data warning of electoral disaster from alienating African-Americans, Latinos and Hispanics any further than they've been alienated by the Party over the past decade represents a watershed development in the American political landscape:
The point is that Trump clearly feels he can afford to flip off the Hispanic community and win with a whites-only strategy. And his supporters are loving the idea that he's trying.
The decision by huge masses of Republican voters to defy D.C.-thinkfluencer types like George Will and throw in with a carnival act like Trump is no small thing. For the first time in a generation, Republican voters are taking their destiny into their own hands.
In the elaborate con that is American electoral politics, the Republican voter has long been the easiest mark in the game, the biggest dope in the room. Everyone inside the Beltway knows this. The Republican voters themselves are the only ones who never saw it.
The classic scam perpetrated by the GOP on its voters is that it cares about the same issues that they do. That pesky hot-button social issues like abortion or gay marriage actually matter to billionaire hedge fund managers and the CEO's of fossil fuel conglomerates who actually foot the bill for maintaining the Party as a going concern. Or that the insanely profitable cheap labor provided by immigrants or anyone else is something the GOP elites would actually want to scuttle:................
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/09/06/1418838/-Taibbi-The-2016-Election-Is-Now-All-About-White-Victimhood
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