Donald Trump, Class Warrior
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Donald Trump, Class Warrior
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#2To me, a lot of his support is rooted in those who are sick of career politicians. Career politicians who expect to be put on a pedestal because their party affiliation.
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#3This post explains why Trump has a legitimate chance.
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#4I clicked on this expecting blather but actually found insight. The TLDR: non-college-educated working class people are sick of the disdain they get from middle and upper classes. Think of comments your friends might make about "rednecks" or people who are "inbred" or from "flyover country". A vote for Trump is a vote against the elite who Trump delights in pissing off. His outrageousness is his brand. The political system is stacked and broken so putting Trump in office won't change much. It just expresses disgust at the system and the upper and middle classes who run it.
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#5I clicked on this expecting blather but actually found insight. The TLDR: non-college-educated working class people are sick of the disdain they get from middle and upper classes. Think of comments your friends might make about "rednecks" or people who are "inbred" or from "flyover country". A vote for Trump is a vote against the elite who Trump delights in pissing off. His outrageousness is his brand. The political…
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#6The author makes it sound as though he is the only to meet, appreciate and understand Trump supporters. He makes it sound as if the rest of us haven't seen, met or read these people.
Trump's support jumps when he talks against certain groups of people. It is not accidental to his support it is essential to his support. The racism isn't an anti-elitist posture, it is an essential element of his campaign.
And my PC friends don't use the term "redneck", and do not look down in disdain on poor people. Who is the author hanging out with?
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#7I clicked on this expecting blather but actually found insight. The TLDR: non-college-educated working class people are sick of the disdain they get from middle and upper classes. Think of comments your friends might make about "rednecks" or people who are "inbred" or from "flyover country". A vote for Trump is a vote against the elite who Trump delights in pissing off. His outrageousness is his brand. The political…
> The political system is stacked and broken so putting Trump in office won't change much.
that's a dangerous view - trump has shown himself time again to be a good negotiator and has made good, calculated decisions. he has charisma! it's more likely that he would 'get something done' (not for better but for worse, probably) than somebody like ted cruz, who also rails against this political system, but who is more explicit in his disregard for the 'average joe' and is hated by the entire republican delegation to congress
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#8I clicked on this expecting blather but actually found insight. The TLDR: non-college-educated working class people are sick of the disdain they get from middle and upper classes. Think of comments your friends might make about "rednecks" or people who are "inbred" or from "flyover country". A vote for Trump is a vote against the elite who Trump delights in pissing off. His outrageousness is his brand. The political…
Presidential executive authority is vast. There is much the president can do without permission from any single other person and it has only expanded in recent years during the administrations of Bush and Obama. He could put every Muslim American on the no-fly list (or anyone considered 'subversive', for that matter). He could send in the military/national guard to lock every American citizen who doesn't fit a particular criteria into interment camps. He will be ordering drone strikes. He can sign the death warrant of American citizens. He can authorize surveillance, order intelligence agencies to disrupt and try to destroy his political opponents.
All of these are things that the sitting US president has done in fairly recent history solely by power of the executive branch. There are many things the president can't do alone, but there are many, many things he or she can.
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#9The one issue that unifies Trump supporters is anti-Muslim bigotry. A whopping 75% of voters during the last exit poll support Trump's wholesale ban on Muslim migration[1].
On all other issues Trump supporters are more divided. Except for this one, where support is near universal. Trump is the logical conclusion of 40 years of race baiting in politics. This is not about "political correctness", except insofar that that bigotry used to be concealed to avoid harsh social judgement, and now it's just out there in the open. Trump's base consists almost entirely of white people who harbor racial anger. The notion that Trump's campaign is really about class instead isn't borne out by the facts. To the contrary, it's a refusal to acknowledge the obvious.
[1]http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/27015...
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#10I clicked on this expecting blather but actually found insight. The TLDR: non-college-educated working class people are sick of the disdain they get from middle and upper classes. Think of comments your friends might make about "rednecks" or people who are "inbred" or from "flyover country". A vote for Trump is a vote against the elite who Trump delights in pissing off. His outrageousness is his brand. The political…
> The political system is stacked and broken so putting Trump in office won't change much. that's a dangerous view - trump has shown himself time again to be a good negotiator and has made good, calculated decisions. he has charisma! it's more likely that he would 'get something done' (not for better but for worse, probably) than somebody like ted cruz, who also rails against this political system, but who is more ex…
To be clear, that was relaying the supposed position of Trump supporters, not my own.