President Donald Trump’s most ardent supporters are motivated by their prejudices, not economic concerns, social scientists contend. Will Democrats stop trying to win their votes?
In January, Smith and his University of Kansas colleague, associate sociology professor Eric A. Hanley, published a 47-page paper deconstructing the Republican president’s appeal. Building on decades of scholarship about the lure of authoritarianism and their own analysis of American voting psychology in 2012 and 2016, the social scientists make an argument that some may find offensive and others unsurprising.
It goes something like this: Trump’s biggest supporters are motivated by bigotry and want him to hurt the people they dislike.
Note: There’s a lot to unpack in this article, and this just seems to be the hook.
Begin?
“Journalist remembers social sciences exist and start listening 10+ years late to see if it snags some web traffic” Trust me, social science and history have been on red alert this whole time.
Yeah, that’s about as surprising as sand at the beach.
Around here its hard to find a sandy beach… I’d say as surprising as water in the ocean
The entire problem is very specifically that they lie about the economy in lockstep, and the media reports it and then idiot centrists are like “oh yeah I guess the economy is bad? People keep talking about it so it must be true.”
Hmmm, I wonder if the political base that waves Confederate and nazi flags, serves a fascist dictatorship, and works alongside fascists globally might be racist? What a real head scratcher that is, who knows really
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Unequivocally yes. Next question.
Is a frog’s ass watertight?
Most asses are
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Thinking back to my boomer mother trying to explain why her racist friends and sister in law weren’t racist they were just experiencing “economic anxiety” 🙄 Like poor people or POC aren’t in the exact same or worse economic position??
They should never have been trying to court his “most ardent” supporters to begin with. It’s the swing voters and non voters they need. (And the centrist agenda isn’t the way to do it.)
Their findings will be published in the “Journal Of No Shit Sherlock.”
Along with the shocking findings that all his bills funnel money from the poor to the rich.
“Centrist” pundits be like: “No, it’s the democrats, who went too far by language policing whites for calling blacks a historically accepted word blacks use in rap music, and other double standards, especially within law enforcement, favoring blacks over other races.”
How many racists do you know that didn’t vote for Trump?
Same reason bigotry isn’t an impedance to a gay or woman President that I see so many people try to claim. Bigots aren’t voting Democrat no matter who it is. Good thing you don’t need those deplorables to win.
Wasn’t this settled way back when?
Anyway, I seem to remember that digging deeper on donvict’s base after Hillary’s deplorables “gaffe” (not a fucking “gaffe” to tell the goddamn truth about awful people) found that she was basically correct - a portion of them are racists, xenophobes, homophobes, misogynists…
