This was a close election. If people keep up dismissing real economic despair, next one won't be. I'm from Turkey. I've seen this movie. https://twitter.com/MWLaPointe/status/796419859559182336 …
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Replying to @zeynep
This ignores large swing to Trump from under $30K group. Trump fused ethno-supremacy with economic populism. Ignore that at your own peril.
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All the sneering at "economic anxiety"? All the finding of pics of awful racists and labeling it "economic anxiety"? Self-induced blindness.
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Of course there is a resurgence of racism—an explicit nationalism based on ethno-supremacy. HE TIED IT TO ECONOMIC REVIVAL. This is potent.
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"But unemployment numbers are low" people need to look at the kinds of jobs people hold. Their fears for the future. Drive outside a city.
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Anti-racism & protecting vulnerable groups is the priority. I'm an immigrant from Middle East and I work with refugees. I will double down.
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But globalization, de-industrialization and tech-fueled change wiped out stability from large swathes of US. Sneering at this is ridiculous.
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I keep correcting this about Turkey. Erdogan runs a populist government. Expanded the welfare state for groups who felt culturally maligned.
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Trump likely not as talented as Erdogan as a politician. There is no realignment... yet. This is still the country that elected Obama.
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Keep this up & there will be a realignment. Trumpism will create its Erdogan. It's a a global wave. Opposition incompetence big part of it.
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: I don't want us to dismiss economic despair. It is across racial lines, but this is not why Trump won. Whitelash happened.
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Replying to @CeCe_23Spalding
I don't disagree with you; I don't think it's either/or. He managed to create a thin-margin coalition.
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: It's wasn't a coalition, unless you mean whiteness. He depressed turnout. It worked. The media's false equivalency worked.
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