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.
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.
Is a frog’s ass watertight?
Most asses are
Took them long to find out the obvious answer. Nice they finally did.
I’m a Democratic Strategist and I think the BEST Takeaway from THIS is that we NEED to Start HURTING More People VERY LOUDLY so we can get THESE Votes INSTEAD of Trying to Keep the Voters we ALREADY have!
Oh come on they can’t be racist! There’s people of color in that base! What are they, racist against themselves? Please, that makes no sense. That’s like if there were Jews that supported the Nazis! Or black folk that fought for the Confederacy!
/s if that’s not obvious
Short answer: Yes.
Long answer: YEEEEESSSSSSSSSS.
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.
The Trump supporters I know definitely are
“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.”
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.
Your just now deciding to weigh in on this? After how fucking long?
His base is fueled by a fear that the “wrong” people (people that look, speak,dress, act, believe differently, and that I don’t really know) are trying to take the country from the “good” people (people like me, that I know).
The issue is that the only cure is to make people get outside of their box. I really started to realize this when I began working with more departments/clinicians in the hospital I was working at. What I’ve found is that the more you get out there and interact with people who aren’t like you, the more you realize that broad generalizations aren’t really worth a damn, and that there’s more good people of all types than you’d think. The main thing they have in common is that they aren’t fucking shitwad billionaires.
I used to show up early for work to catch the morning rush of doctors in the physicians lounge and see a Muslim doctor or two praying after being there since 2am because they were on call, and decided to round on all their consults before they left, and here I am rolling in hungover just waiting to pound out another 8 hours so I can go home and get drunk and high for another night.
Yes.
Research done.
Holy fuck, an exception to Betteridge’s Law
Not necessarily, some of them could be not racist but too dumb to see the conflict.
If you read/hear anything people in Trump’s orbit are pushing as policy and ignore the vehemently racist overtones, that doesn’t make you any LESS racist for supporting obvious racists. That’s like the trope of people saying “Well, I’m not racist, BUT…”
Same difference.
Not saying there aren’t a lot of racists, but there are also many very dumb people. I’ve met enough of the general population to feel fairly certain that there are a non-zero number of Trump supporters who are otherwise tolerant people. They simply don’t think about it.
You’d be surprised by the proportion of the population which spends virtually no time on self-reflection. They just kinda bumble forward through life. Most of these people inherit their political affiliation like a sports team, from their environment. They’re not bad people, they just don’t think too hard.
The “not thinking about it” is what makes them racists.
Eh, I try to use Hanlon’s Razor whenever prudent.
They’re not bad people, they just don’t think too hard.
I propose that they’re bad people because they don’t think too hard.
I agree with this. You don’t have to be consciously malicious for the fact that you refuse to think critically to make you a bad person. This planet and species doesn’t have time to forgive that shit anymore.
To refine my previous claim, those who “don’t think too hard” can’t act like it’s a virtue or claim immunity from ridicule.
However, I don’t want to cross into the territory of punishing people of “thought-crime”, or more accurately in this case, “no-thought-crime”. I think it’s important to not legislate punitively against “not thinking too hard” to remain consistent with the principles of a free and open society.
Not everyone thinks good.
Not everyone thinks
goodwell.Yes, that was intentional to further color the sentiment.
So… MAGA = Cucks? Once again, every accusation is a confession.
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Unequivocally yes. Next question.
