tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post5391905903837835309..comments2024-03-27T14:45:28.176-05:00Comments on Adventus: Bubble? What bubble?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-35423665803462705292017-09-12T17:24:55.164-05:002017-09-12T17:24:55.164-05:00if those poor white middle class assholes wouldn&#...if those poor white middle class assholes wouldn't have dropped out of high school in their sophomore year and gone to work for their local walmart they might have better sense yellowdoggrannyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14906624317290990109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-30467431556201522182017-09-09T13:53:04.130-05:002017-09-09T13:53:04.130-05:00Trump appealed, and appeals, to white racists more...Trump appealed, and appeals, to white racists more bluntly than anyone since David Duke, but I agree that's not the whole story. But I do think the backlash was strong against the"black guy," as well as against Hillary, because there is a Clinton narrative that won't die. And blacks stayed home in some places, because they weren't given a reason to vote. A lesson Democrats still haven't learned. Coates is right about that: white is still the default.Rmjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06811456254443706479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-83040006760473771652017-09-09T11:59:37.926-05:002017-09-09T11:59:37.926-05:00Race is certainly central to how Trump got votes, ...Race is certainly central to how Trump got votes, though as there was a faction of Trump voters who had previously voted for Barack Obama, that's not all there is to it. The backlash to Obama based solely on race was certainly in place by 2012 and, yet, he won reelection against a more credible candidate, decisively. And much of Trump's vote were not poor and blue-collar White voters. Many of them were affluent college graduates with substantial security. So neither of those is negligible in trying to understand what happened. I know a number of younger people who voted for Barack Obama but who declared they couldn't vote for Hillary Clinton based on some believed moral flaw in her, that is something the media has created against her for the past quarter of a century. I don't think that's a negligible factor, I suspect it might have been the decisive one that threw the election to someone the same media created as a public persona and promoted as a politician, the fulfillment of one of the nuttier media creeds of the past three decades and more, that what the country needed was to be governed by a businessman. That's so old it was the absurd premise of the Capra, Tracy-Hepburn movie, State of the Nation. It was a stupid idea then, it's even stupider in reality. The Thought Criminalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01381376556757084468noreply@blogger.com