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Showing Original Post only (View all)Democrats need to stop believing this myth about Trump's base. Hint it's the culture, stupid [View all]
The big myth about the 2016 presidential election was that economic suffering drove most of Donald Trump's "base" directly into his hands in states such as Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan. The story goes that while Democrats were tied in knots about identity politics, Trump's attacks on China, free trade and open-ended immigration appealed to struggling workers who believed he could bring back their jobs.
The problem with the narrative is that we keep learning it is not true.
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A just-published study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by the political scientist Diana Mutz found that white, Christian, male voters were attracted to Trump out of fear that their social status keeps dwindling. It was, in fact, Trump who was focused on identity politics, not simply the Democrats.
Mutz's research found that members of Trump's base believed they faced more discrimination as white males than most other groups, such as Muslims. "For the first time since Europeans arrived in this country, white Americans are being told that they will soon be a minority race," she writes.
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Studies suggest that some of Trump's voters will not change their minds in response to any kind of economic policies. The only way for Democrats to win those voters over would be to turn their backs on core constituencies, like college-educated, working women, African-Americans, and immigrants, who have been vital to the party for decades.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/28/opinions/trump-base-economy-myth-opinion-zelizer/index.html
The problem with the narrative is that we keep learning it is not true.
...
A just-published study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by the political scientist Diana Mutz found that white, Christian, male voters were attracted to Trump out of fear that their social status keeps dwindling. It was, in fact, Trump who was focused on identity politics, not simply the Democrats.
Mutz's research found that members of Trump's base believed they faced more discrimination as white males than most other groups, such as Muslims. "For the first time since Europeans arrived in this country, white Americans are being told that they will soon be a minority race," she writes.
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Studies suggest that some of Trump's voters will not change their minds in response to any kind of economic policies. The only way for Democrats to win those voters over would be to turn their backs on core constituencies, like college-educated, working women, African-Americans, and immigrants, who have been vital to the party for decades.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/28/opinions/trump-base-economy-myth-opinion-zelizer/index.html
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Democrats need to stop believing this myth about Trump's base. Hint it's the culture, stupid [View all]
DemocratSinceBirth
Apr 2018
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In a million years I can not imagine my mom and dad wearing shirts like that...
DemocratSinceBirth
Apr 2018
#8
EMBRACE Progessive (very socially liberal and medium socialist) economics and social policies.
Bernardo de La Paz
Apr 2018
#14
We should do most of those things because they are the rights to do.
DemocratSinceBirth
Apr 2018
#21
Leave Trumpanzees in our dust. USA is progressive, liberal & Democratic absent gerrymander & vote su
Bernardo de La Paz
Apr 2018
#22
that's pretty much a "duh", but there is still a bigger "duh" if that study didn't blame talk radio
certainot
Apr 2018
#15
Julian Zeliger's summation is not the first I've read with the same thesis.
BobTheSubgenius
Apr 2018
#17
There is a lot of assumption in saying that to only win over these voters would be to
JCanete
Apr 2018
#18
If we turn out our core constituents we don't even need one of their votes
DemocratSinceBirth
Apr 2018
#20