Donald Trump Is the Result of White Rage, Not Economic Anxiety

[Horse with no Name]

http://time.com/4573307/donald-trump-white-rage/?xid=fbshare

White rage got us here. While the economic anxiety of Trump supporters is often touted as the driving force behind the mogul’s electoral college victory, that rationale is just a ruse, a clever red herring. The median income of a Trump supporter is more than $70,000 per year, which is well above the national average, and a 2016 study noted that it would take African Americans 228 years to equal the wealth of whites in the U.S. Clearly, Trump’s pathway into the Oval Office is not really about white economic angst. Rather, Barack Obama’s election — and its powerful symbolism of black advancement — was the major trigger for the policy backlash that led to Donald Trump, and which has now put America’s national security at risk.

Republicans carved out this trench shortly after Obama’s 2008 victory. The GOP pushed through a number of laws at the state level to block as many of his voters, primarily African Americans, from the polls as possible. North Carolina targeted black voters with nearly “surgical precision.” Wisconsin Republicans were “giddy” about disfranchising African Americans, especially in Milwaukee. Florida’s GOP cut particular days of early voting to nullify the political participation of black churchgoers. Texas required certain types of government-issued photo IDs to vote and then ensured that nearly 1.6 million black and Latino citizens would have very limited access. Ohio skewed its early voting laws to diminish the turnout in the cities while also implementing a literacy test that officials applied only to those in urban counties.
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In a horrific Faustian calculation, these Republican patriots put the nation at risk so that Trump could fulfill his dominant campaign promise. And, to be clear, it was not to make America great again, but to make access to America’s resources “whites only” again. The Klan recognized it, as did the white nationalists who gave Trump their full-throttled support. But, this wasn’t just a fantasy of the far right. The allure of a revived Jim Crow nation that proudly, willfully excludes and debases millions of nonwhites was so reaffirming and reassuring that everything else became secondary or tertiary. Everything else, including national security.

[spanone]

1. what's interesting is that Obama's approval rating is at record highs... 56%

56% and the birther in chief just got elected president.....

this discrepency alone could make a good argument for voter suppression...including the first election since the supreme

court gutted the voting rights act of 1965

http://www.gallup.com/poll/116479/barack-obama-presidential-job-approval.aspx

[Horse with no Name]

2. they have figured out how to disenfranchise "just enough"

in key areas so that they can win elections without majorities.

[spanone]

4. yes. North Carolina GOP Brags Racist Voter Suppression Is Workingand Theyre Right

It’s quite possible that the 2016 election will be decided by North Carolina. And according to early voting data, North Carolina may be decided by voter suppression.

Early turnout among black voters in the state has been running below 2008 and 2012 levels—so far, the bloc is turning out at only 82 percent of their 2012 numbers, as The New York Times reported. (Early voting overall was up in North Carolina, with 4.6 million ballots already cast.)

What the Times didn’t report was that the decline wasn’t due to lack of enthusiasm or effort, but voter suppression. In fact, there’s a near perfect fit between where black voters aren’t voting and where Republicans have made it harder to vote—a fact highlighted by a press release issued today by the state Republican Party, which called the decrease "encouraging."

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/11/07/north-carolina-s-racist-voter-suppression-is-working.html

[uponit7771]

5. YES .. YES ... and yes!!! I've been saying they don't have to suppress hundreds of thousands

... of votes just enough to win by very slim margins.

Someone posted an article about the margin DPutin won in the 4 HRC projected states...

It was all 1% ... no divergence from that... 1%... in ALL FOUR STATES !!!

Yeah right... bull fuckin shit

rigged

[Horse with no Name]

8. That is pretty suspect

I didn't know that.

[still_one]

10. You are correct, and the OP is correct. In the OPs case it was those that were afraid of the

"browning of America" 27% of those that voted for trump is about the same percentage of those that believe the birther garbage.

At least 10% of the Sanders supporters refused to vote for Hillary. Some of those voted for third party, and some didn't vote.

Around 47% of the eligible voters didn't even bother to vote. While the polls indicated the popularity of Obama, the reason I believe it didn't carry over into Hillary, is because of the shoddy way the media covered this election.

The matt lauer interview was a perfect example of their double standard coverage, and that was throughout the whole process.

Their coverage of the comey interference was the final outrage. MSNBC was the first station to LIE about that by "breaking news" that the email investigation was reopened. That was a blatant LIE. They then proceeded to parade every right wing politician on their outlet to amplify that lie. The other networks then followed suit.

There is no excuse for people not voting, but it isn't surprising the way this election was covered by the media, why people didn't bother to vote.

A lot of other factors contributed, but the FBI and the media deserve the bulk of the blame

[JI7]

11. hillary did win the popular vote and many of those 56 percent could be in california

New york mass etc

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

3. As a 59 year old straight white guy I have to ask

WHAT'S THEIR FUCKING PROBLEM? PUT ON YOUR BIG BOY PANTS AND ACT LIKE A MAN NOT A SNIVELING LITTLE BOY.

[smirkymonkey]

6. 1000

[BeyondGeography]

7. Excellent

K&R

[a kennedy]

9. NPR's "on point". They all call in.....and they all say, "it's not because I'm

a racist" and then go on to say that the outsiders, i.e. blacks, muslims, and Mexicans all get ahead and we poor whites don't get any special treatment or handouts. So sick of them saying, "I'm not a racist but.......