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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Some people will, so convinced of their own superiority. To their own eventual regret, probably.
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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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still a lot of middle and upper class ppl also voted for him. Perhaps for the same reasons though.
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Ethnopopulism, yes. The economics part was just marketing cover. He won higher income voters, lost lower incomes.
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that's missing the point. Romney won higher income groups, but lost the lower economic groups much worse. It's the delta.
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even in good times you have the Country-Club Republicans. I don't think this invalidates the main point here.
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I think concern is that here in the US we tend to ignore impact of race and attribute all to "economic anxiety" of white men.
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Which allows a Trump to rise in the first place.
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