Boy, I sure am glad no Trump supporters aren't actually racist

[BainsBane]

They are just misunderstood and neglected, and what they really care about is TPP and corporate influence.

[Not Ruth]

1. Half of Americans are Nazis

[BainsBane]

4. Trump didn't get the support of half of Americans, not even close

and they don't have to be out there running people over in cars to sympathize. Exit polls and survey data shows racial anxiety is the ONE issue that Trump voters have in common.

We saw efforts to excuse all of that away to feed into a narrative that was demonstrably false from the time it first arose. It's time to put an end to that.

[kcr]

16. Well, thank god they have you to defend them.

Even though you get your facts wrong. Oh, well. Everyone deserves a champion.

[ananda]

21. I'd say that the white supremacists who are egregiously out and violent..

.. make up about 20% of the population.

And about 30% make up the ordinary "good German" racists.

[mcar]

2. They were merely expressing economic anxiety

We on the left must reach out to them so we can earn their votes.

[ProudLib72]

5. But wasn't tRump supposed to alleviate their economic anxiety?

Now with all those coal jobs, you would think they could finally move out of mom's basement.

[mcar]

23. Yeah,but it's Obama's fault

[Thinkingabout]

3. NEVER! But they say they want to carry out Trump's agenda of "taking our

Country" back. White people elected him, no pressure here Trumpy, who would think they are anything but racists.

[Squinch]

6. But... but... it was a vote against the oligarchs!!!!!

[betsuni]

22. +1

[Bengus81]

7. Yeah...and they NEVER march and cause chaos like them Libruls.....

Well that myth went flying out the window.

[PunkinPi]

8. poor babies...

Link to tweet

[BainsBane]

10. That is a great tweet

and meme. I posted it to FB.

Thanks.

[PunkinPi]

11. Sums it up most succinctly...

you're welcome.

[betsuni]

13. +1

[JustAnotherGen]

9. Shh - they aren't anti globalists either

I've been perusing the twitters of some of the folks identified at their white supremacist Trump/Pence 2020 rally in VA this weekend.

They all seem to have 'anti-globalism' somewhere in their profiles. Like -what is that? Seriously. So they don't own a passport? They buy made in the USA only? What is that?


Yes - I know what it is . . . a new way to slur and be hateful to Jewish folks but I felt it needs to be written.

[BainsBane]

20. Yep, it's called white naionalism

for a reason.

[Solly Mack]

12. Oh, yeah. So worried about their own economic well being that they scapegoat

brown people, black people, women, LGBT people for all their woes instead of actually paying attention to who they are voting for.

Those you scapegoat says more about what you're really thinking than anything else does. That's where your true motives lie.

Trump made them feel good about what they already believed anyway, so they voted for him.

He made them feel good about being bigots, so everything else coming out of his mouth was believed.

He didn't fool them or lie to them - he flattered their hate and once he did, they didn't hear anything else. They simply cheered.

Sure, they probably were worried about the loss of jobs, the lack of health care, and not having enough money to survive on - but once Trump said it was OK to be a bigot, they were good to go. He didn't give them someone to hate as much as he told them it was OK to hate. They could find people to blame without any help. The go-to usual targets are always there for them. Trump made it seem acceptable.

They chose a wealthy con artist who told them it was OK to be a deplorable. A wealthy con artist who wouldn't even allow them into his clubs, much less his home.

A wealthy con artist who took advantage of the system, the very system Trump said was corrupt, and they thought he would change things for them. Because, somehow, the billionaire con artist was one of them.

Now, by being one of them they couldn't possibly have meant being in the same social circles, so that leaves...

a shared bigotry, a disdain for higher education and science, a mutual affinity for telling lies to yourself and others, nationalism...

[BainsBane]

15. Yes, and Trump tapped into a deep current

in American culture that's as old as American slavery.

[Solly Mack]

17. Oh, yeah. That concept was taught to me early in life.

It's the who am I better than today hierarchy scale of racism.

[betsuni]

14. Heh, perfect.

[spanone]

18. we saw trump's base in action on saturday.....'they' elected him

[BootinUp]

19. Lovables not deplorables say Trump.