The problem that a Mexican immigrant faces are probably quite different than, let’s say, a 45 year old white male in an old factory town. That 45 year old male probably lives in a very homogeneous community with limited, if any, exposure to other groups.
How so? In the sense that the immigrant is willing to do what it takes (e.g., move, take menial jobs, learn new skills) whereas the other guy won’t? What advantages, exactly, is the immigrant holding? Your two examples have more in common than that old white male and Donald Trump.
As Pyperkub explained so well, that economy ain’t coming back. And you can’t make it come back no matter how willing you are to throw others, who are pretty much in the same boat as you, under the bus (apologies for the mixed metaphors).
I was listening to POTUS last night (which has become my default station right now; I really like their reporting) and they did a little piece on this. It seems that walking out on a candidate is something of a CPAC tradition. Led by one guy (who dresses up as a revolutionary war soldier), a bunch of folks get up and leave all at once to protest the fact that the front-runner is not as Tea-Party as the Tea-Party walk-outs would like.
They’ve done it for the last few election-year CPACs and maybe do it every year no matter what. They walked out on Jeb Bush last year and Romney a few years back. It’s become so rote and expected that the campaigns have a bunch of people on “standby” to run in and take over the empty seats immediately so that the press can’t get any pics of half-empty rows.
It’s all very chuckle-worthy, but it goes to show that this rumored “walk-out protest” was a surprise to no one. Just another little factoid to create more column-inches and clicks for the Trump ratings bonanza.
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Apparently, there has been some major blowback among the military from what he said last night about ordering illegal acts.
This would explain his reversal on the subject.
That Mexican immigrant is, on average, young and unmarried. That means he’s highly mobile and can afford to work for relatively low wages. He also (in all likelihood) has limited English language skills. The white male, my Trump voter, is much older (too late to learn a new trade), and is tied to a community either through home ownership or a family.
Bingo. But the elites have known this since the founding of the Republic. One of the underpinning supports for the institution of slavery, and later Jim Crow, was the dire need to prevent the poor from unifying against the wealthy and powerful. Racism worked for a long time; make it so no white man could be at the bottom as long as there were black slaves, and equate blackness with slave-ness, and inflame people with the fear of “servile insurrection, sir!” and you keep the bottom-feeders from banding together to take on the guys in the white mansions. During Jim Crow, a segregated, racist society did pretty much the same thing, promising a sense of racial equality to the poor whites in opposition to the “black beast rapist” stereotype (thanks D.W. Griffith!) to keep the lower classes divided. Of course, all the while, the only hand the rich were giving the poor had an extended middle finger.
Today, it’s the same sort of thing. Stir up hatred of the other, even when that other has more in common with you than the rich white bastards at the top of the pyramid.
Very interesting article on why the GOP establishment is freaking out about Trump going into the general.
There is absolutely no way (despite the B.S. promises) that that particular white male can return to having the same standard of living of the late 20th century, while standing still (e.g., not developing new skills, not moving, etc.). “Make America Great Again” is shorthand for “I’ll somehow deliver everything to you on a platter”, which is ironic as hell given the distrust of entitlement programs.
So, I agree with you: the white male is worse off (as I said above) if the difference is that one group is willing to sacrifice for a better life and one isn’t.
Guess who got on the cover of Time!
There is a certain logic to “hey if we just close the borders and ship the Mexicans back home they’ll be more demand for my people like me and my wages will go up.” It is like the old bear joke, don’t need to out run the bear, just you.
But the stereotypical Drumpf voter is only a fraction of the actual number of Drumpf voter, since he is winning in pretty much all demographic groups.
Bobby Jindal says, “Thanks, Obama!” for Trump.
That’s right. He blames Obama for Trump. Not his own party’s rhetoric. Obama.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/president-obama-created-donald-trump-1457048679
But the president truly doesn’t get enough credit for creating one of the most polarizing forces in American politics today. No, not Hillary—that is more Bill’s doing. Let’s be honest: There would be no Donald Trump, dominating the political scene today if it were not for President Obama.
I believe that voters tend to act in open-seat presidential elections to correct for the perceived deficiencies of the incumbent. In 1980, after four years of President Carter’s telling us to turn up the thermostat and wear a cardigan, while the Soviets invaded Afghanistan and the Iranians invaded the U.S. Embassy, the fed-up American people elected a cowboy to the White House who made it clear that the evil empire’s days were numbered.
After eight years of President Reagan’s supply-side economics and broadsides against welfare queens, we got a kinder, gentler President H.W. Bush. After four years of international diplomacy without the “vision thing,” we got a loquacious Arkansas governor promising to invent a third way forward focused on the economy at home. After eight years of Clintonian empathy and skirt-chasing, we got a plain-spoken President George W. Bush, who promised to restore integrity to the Oval Office. After Hurricane Katrina and post-Hussein Iraq, we got the professorial President Barack Obama, who seemed to many to promise competence.
After seven years of the cool, weak and endlessly nuanced “no drama Obama,” voters are looking for a strong leader who speaks in short, declarative sentences. Middle-class incomes are stagnant, and radical Islam is on the march across the Middle East. No wonder voters are responding to someone who promises to make America great again. You can draw a straight line between a president who dismisses domestic terrorist attacks as incidents of workplace violence and a candidate who wants to ban Muslims from entering the country.
The gift that keeps on giving. Just as St. Reagan is the font of all virtue, in a hundred years if the GOP, the US, and humanity still exists they will be blaming Obama for their problems.
My father, who God help him, is a Trump supporter, forwarded this email to me that was sent to all the Trump faithful.
They sandwiched TRUMP between two Cubans. They both attacked him like rabid dogs. The establishment knows TRUMP is beating all three of their owned puppets. The real plan was to have the Cubans make TRUMP look bad. But the biggest part of the plan was to make Kasich look good to try to make sure he wins Ohio. Winner in Ohio takes all the delegates. Same in Florida. However they know TRUMP is way ahead in Florida and will take all those delegates. It is the only way to block TRUMP from getting 1237 delegates before the republican convention. Then they can steal it from TRUMP at the convention. If you know anyone in Ohio please tell them to Vote for TRUMP. Don’t let them steal this election from the people.
TRUMP THEM ALL
TRUMP 2016.
“after a smart guy, we want a stupid guy!”
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Republican Voters Kind Of Hate All Their Choices via 538.
So how is Trump winning? Partly it’s because the field is so divided, as Trende wrote. Campaign reporters perhaps ought to do more to distinguish between a candidate who is winning 34 percent of his party’s vote, as Trump has done so far, and one winning with 60 percent, as Clinton has. Clinton has a much clearer mandate than Trump does. But it’s also partly because Rubio and Cruz leave many Republicans dissatisfied. Maybe if Romney had run himself?
So we’re going to build a floating wall to keep the Cubans out too, right? They’ll pay for it, of course.
They sandwiched TRUMP between two Cubans. They both attacked him like rabid dogs. The establishment knows TRUMP is beating all three of their owned puppets. The real plan was to have the Cubans make TRUMP look bad. But the biggest part of the plan was to make Kasich look good to try to make sure he wins Ohio. Winner in Ohio takes all the delegates. Same in Florida. However they know TRUMP is way ahead in Florida and will take all those delegates. It is the only way to block TRUMP from getting 1237 delegates before the republican convention. Then they can steal it from TRUMP at the convention. If you know anyone in Ohio please tell them to Vote for TRUMP. Don’t let them steal this election from the people.
This spam perfectly captures the delusions of Trump supporters. They look to TRUMP to save them, because only TRUMP has the class and the yuge brand-name recognition to bring down the pathetic scum that stand in TRUMPs way. TRUMP will crush all that stands in his path! All hail TRUMP …
… because TRUMP is doing it for the people.
Yeah, like hell he is. TRUMP is doing it for TRUMP. The only thing TRUMP is going to do for the people is graciously grant them permission to join his cult of personality.
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Where did that come from?
I like the overt racism intoned with the description of Cruz and Rubio as two Cubans.
Thanks for link that article, it’s really good.
Jindal’s legacy in Louisiana.
When TRUMP rules, britches shall not ride up so wedge-like!
