Hitlery was Right About 1 Thing: Trump Voters Proven to be Deplorables

6/16/2017 7:42:05 AM	Hitlery was Right About 1 Thing: Trump Voters Proven to be Deplorables
condor_0000 Tampa, FL 60, joined Feb. 2013	New Evidence Demolishes the Myth of Trump’s “Blue-Collar” Populism June 16, 2017 by Anthony DiMaggio https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/06/16/93450/ Excerpts: There is some truth to the position that Trump voters were motivated by anger and anxiety over the state of the economy. But a growing body of data now makes it clear that this ‘economic populism from below’ narrative is heavily exaggerated, and that scholars and commentators should be focusing on larger factors driving support for Trump, which include support for racism, xenophobia, white nationalism, right-wing militarism, anti-choice politics, and the elitist class war against the middle class and poor. Numerous studies, including 2016 primary and general election data, leave little question that the traditional “economic populist” framework is increasingly difficult to defend. I summarized the studies covering the 2016 primary elections in detail in a previous Counterpunch piece, “Donald Trump and the Myth of Economic Populism,” which reviewed numerous polls finding that Trump voters were not more likely to be unemployed, to be lower income, or to hail from geographic regions harmed by outsourcing of manufacturing jobs. Rather, Trump supporters were mainly driven by reactionary positions on social and political issues. Significant statistical predictors of support for Trump included: disinterest in reducing health care costs nationally, disinterest in dealing with the problems of the poor and needy, disinterest in addressing climate change, concern with protection gun rights, interest in strengthening the U.S. military, concern with fighting terrorism, support for dealing with immigration, and embrace of Islamophobic attitudes framing Muslims as extremist and anti-American. Since the 2016 Republican primaries, numerous studies of general election polling data reinforce the conclusion that Trump supporters are fixated on social issues, and that these voters do not represent economically disadvantaged demographic groups. Eric Draitser summarized some of this data in his important CounterPunch piece, “Donald Trump and the Triumph of White Identity Politics.” Drawing on national polling data analyzed by political scientists, Draitser argued that sexism and racism were much more significant predictors of Trump support going into the 2016 November election, as compared to personal economic dissatisfaction. Trump supporters are clearly angry at the state of the U.S. economy. The CBS-New York Times 2016 exit poll data suggests they are more than four times as likely to claim the state of the U.S. economy is “poor” compared to Clinton supporters. Trump’s supporters are looking for scapegoats to blame for their own downwardly trending economic fortunes. And right-wing politicians and conservative media from Fox News to Rush Limbaugh are more than happy to provide them with targets. Susceptibility to reactionary bigotry was apparent in Pew’s October 2016 survey data. Numerous reactionary political attitudes, related to racism, sexism, and xenophobia, were statistically significant predictors of support for Trump. These include: * The belief that “undocumented immigrants who are now living in the U.S. should not be allowed to stay in the country legally” and that “there should be a national law enforcement effort to deport” them, despite the lack of evidence that immigrants represent a greater criminal threat to the country than native citizens. * The sentiment that “there is too much attention paid to race and racial issues in our country these days,” despite countless studies documenting how American political, legal, economic, and media institutions routinely discriminate against people of color. * The notion that during the election, Clinton was “treated less critically [than Donald Trump] because she is a woman,” which draws on the farcical right-wing delusion that men are the real victims of sexism in America, and that women act from a position of power as an aggressive, sexist, dominating force. * The feeling that “The U.S. does not have a responsibility to accept refugees from Syria into the country,” which draws on paranoid, unsubstantiated, and bigoted notions that Muslims are a “fifth column” threat to American lives and national security. Meet singles at DateHookup.dating, we're 100% free! Join now!
6/16/2017 7:49:34 AM	Hitlery was Right About 1 Thing: Trump Voters Proven to be Deplorables
mudclean Warren, MI 37, joined Sep. 2008	Maybe Hillary lost the election because she called half the country deplorable. Candidate A thinks I'm deplorable and candidate B thinks I'm a great American. Tough choice.
6/16/2017 7:57:24 AM	Hitlery was Right About 1 Thing: Trump Voters Proven to be Deplorables
beanhammer Denton, TX 53, joined Jun. 2014	The greatest deplorable POLITICAL act have done was vote for T rump. He is fighting a good fight.
6/16/2017 8:00:55 AM	Hitlery was Right About 1 Thing: Trump Voters Proven to be Deplorables
reginamc Las Vegas, NV 62, joined Mar. 2011	Quote from mudclean: Maybe Hillary lost the election because she called half the country deplorable. Candidate A thinks I'm deplorable and candidate B thinks I'm a great American. Tough choice. Exactly. Candidate A does nothing but portray the country as a racist sexist homophobic xenophobic mess, divides the groups into competing camps, and Candidate B ends every speech with "we all bleed red and we all love America" - tough choice indeed.
6/16/2017 8:59:53 AM	Hitlery was Right About 1 Thing: Trump Voters Proven to be Deplorables
lobo_corazon Orleans, ON 48, joined May. 2008	Quote from mudclean: Maybe Hillary lost the election because she called half the country deplorable. Candidate A thinks I'm deplorable and candidate B thinks I'm a great American. Tough choice. But you are deplorable. It's certainly no surprise that you would vote for the party of division and hate.
6/16/2017 9:04:07 AM	Hitlery was Right About 1 Thing: Trump Voters Proven to be Deplorables
lobo_corazon Orleans, ON 48, joined May. 2008	Quote from reginamc: Exactly. Candidate A does nothing but portray the country as a racist sexist homophobic xenophobic mess, divides the groups into competing camps, and Candidate B ends every speech with "we all bleed red and we all love America" - tough choice indeed. Don't worry, Trump doesn't bleed. He has people to do that for him. It takes an incredible amount of naivete to believe that Trump finds any common cause with you. One of the most amusing little snippets from the campaign trail was the bit about how he feels like he's a farmer because his daddy sat him on a tractor seat once when he was 4, or whatever. Then he went home to his gilded palace in the sky to have dinner with his supermodel wife #3, prepared by their kitchen staff. You know, just like any other farmer.
6/16/2017 9:18:27 AM	Hitlery was Right About 1 Thing: Trump Voters Proven to be Deplorables
scoobs78 Kansas City, MO 39, joined Jun. 2013	Trumps daddy can also be blamed for trumps mental health! He's the one that shoved, greed, power, money and big business down donnie!'s throat all his childhood! His mother I think was against it all I think!
6/16/2017 9:21:51 AM	Hitlery was Right About 1 Thing: Trump Voters Proven to be Deplorables
fishnthec Mesquite, TX 66, joined Oct. 2010	Quote from reginamc: Exactly. Candidate A does nothing but portray the country as a racist sexist homophobic xenophobic mess, divides the groups into competing camps, and Candidate B ends every speech with "we all bleed red and we all love America" - tough choice indeed. Hillary's campaign theme was "We are stronger together". That don't sound like she was dividing people into groups to me. Exactly what did she say to make you think she portrays America as a racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic mess? I remember that she pointed out that Donald Trump used language that was racist, sexist, homophobic, and xenophobic in his campaign speeches! But only because it was true! And it was only yesterday that Donald Trump ever said, "We all bleed red, and that the elected people in DC all love our country"! That was a first! And I think, most people found that to be an admirable thing to say at a time like that. So score him a couple of Brownie Points for me! OK! But, let's keep our facts straight! OK?
6/16/2017 9:41:43 AM	Hitlery was Right About 1 Thing: Trump Voters Proven to be Deplorables
cinnamonnhaze Minneapolis, MN 73, joined Apr. 2014	Quote from lobo_corazon: But you are deplorable. It's certainly no surprise that you would vote for the party of division and hate.
6/16/2017 9:44:18 AM	Hitlery was Right About 1 Thing: Trump Voters Proven to be Deplorables
cherisays Holiday, FL 47, joined Dec. 2014	Did anyone read that crap?
6/16/2017 12:28:42 PM	Hitlery was Right About 1 Thing: Trump Voters Proven to be Deplorables
mudclean Warren, MI 37, joined Sep. 2008	Quote from lobo_corazon: Don't worry, Trump doesn't bleed. He has people to do that for him. It takes an incredible amount of naivete to believe that Trump finds any common cause with you. One of the most amusing little snippets from the campaign trail was the bit about how he feels like he's a farmer because his daddy sat him on a tractor seat once when he was 4, or whatever. Then he went home to his gilded palace in the sky to have dinner with his supermodel wife #3, prepared by their kitchen staff. You know, just like any other farmer. Canadians don't bleed for their country, Americans do it for them. Maybe we should require Canadians to register for the draft and provide us with a set amiunt of additional troops at their own expense.
6/16/2017 12:32:44 PM	Hitlery was Right About 1 Thing: Trump Voters Proven to be Deplorables
nycman530 New York, NY 64, joined Dec. 2010	Hillary is the last person who should be calling ANYONE deplorable!
6/16/2017 12:40:38 PM	Hitlery was Right About 1 Thing: Trump Voters Proven to be Deplorables
scarredandtatto Oral, SD 52, joined Aug. 2013	Yeah? Who's the first one? Is he orange? aaaaaaaaaaand happen to be the so called president? Quote from lobo_corazon: Don't worry, Trump doesn't bleed. He has people to do that for him. It takes an incredible amount of naivete to believe that Trump finds any common cause with you. One of the most amusing little snippets from the campaign trail was the bit about how he feels like he's a farmer because his daddy sat him on a tractor seat once when he was 4, or whatever. Then he went home to his gilded palace in the sky to have dinner with his supermodel wife #3, prepared by their kitchen staff. You know, just like any other farmer. he's certainly like a farmer's dream field...full of shit.
6/16/2017 1:37:32 PM	Hitlery was Right About 1 Thing: Trump Voters Proven to be Deplorables
w6o6l6f_1 Richmond, VA 40, joined May. 2014	Hitlery had no message of her own. Her platform was just to continue everything that Obama did. A major reason why she lost.
6/16/2017 1:58:50 PM	Hitlery was Right About 1 Thing: Trump Voters Proven to be Deplorables
scoobs78 Kansas City, MO 39, joined Jun. 2013	Quote from w6o6l6f_1: Hitlery had no message of her own. Her platform was just to continue everything that Obama did. A major reason why she lost. U republicants whined for 7 yrs about obama care yet had no plan ready to go and when it came to it the plan I did propose kicked people off healthcare! Now u got republicants that don't have the balls to step up against trump
6/16/2017 5:08:40 PM	Hitlery was Right About 1 Thing: Trump Voters Proven to be Deplorables
condor_0000 Tampa, FL 60, joined Feb. 2013	Quote from cherisays: Did anyone read that crap? Basically it says what we all see on this site each and every day. Post election research and studies prove that the average Trump voter is exactly like all you DH right-wing deplorables who are racist, xenophobic, white nationalists, right-wing militarists, and anti-choice.
6/17/2017 12:15:43 AM	Hitlery was Right About 1 Thing: Trump Voters Proven to be Deplorables
lobo_corazon Orleans, ON 48, joined May. 2008	Quote from mudclean: Canadians don't bleed for their country, Americans do it for them. Maybe we should require Canadians to register for the draft and provide us with a set amiunt of additional troops at their own expense. What unit did you serve in again? And could you be any more clueless if you tried? [Edited 6/17/2017 12:16:01 AM ]
6/17/2017 5:28:24 AM	Hitlery was Right About 1 Thing: Trump Voters Proven to be Deplorables
woniota Jacksonville, FL 52, joined Jul. 2014	We can't thank her enough for that statement. It was the greatest political gaffe of all time and cost her the election. Heck, it will probably end up destroying the democratic party altogether.
6/17/2017 5:42:19 AM	Hitlery was Right About 1 Thing: Trump Voters Proven to be Deplorables
cinnamonnhaze Minneapolis, MN 73, joined Apr. 2014	Quote from mudclean: Canadians don't bleed for their country, Americans do it for them. Maybe we should require Canadians to register for the draft and provide us with a set amiunt of additional troops at their own expense. Canadian also don't have leaders who shoot off their mouth, insulting their allies. Canadians don't try to meddle in other countries government systems. Canadians do a much better job of taking care of their citizens - ALL their citizens - not just the top 2%. Canadians are fooled into hatred by a fool who only cares about padding his pockets & the pockets of his billionaire buddies. Canadians don't have crumbling roads & bridges that fall into rivers. Canadians don't have mass murders 2 or 3 times a week. This is why we don't hear much about Canada. I'd rather be more like Canada & stay out of the world news every single day. [Edited 6/17/2017 5:43:07 AM ]

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