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05-06-2016, 07:00 AM
I said this in another thread, that blacks and hispanics are more middleclass than ever before. They are union workers, public workers in all job classifications in federal and state and local govts. Cops, Firemen and Teachers. Read the entire article, even if YOU DONT WANT TO BELIEVE OR WONT BELIEVE NO MATTER WHAT. Its well laid out, read it.
What Pundits Keep Getting Wrong About Donald Trump and the Working Class
The working class is blacker and browner than it used to be.
Most analysis of Donald Trump’s electability hinges on his working-class appeal—specifically, working-class anger at the economic arrangements of a post-recession America. “The deeper, long-term reasons for today’s rage are not hard to find, although many of us elites have shamefully found ourselves able to ignore them,” writes Andrew Sullivan (http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/04/america-tyranny-donald-trump.html), now of New York magazine, in an essay on Trump, his rise, and its threat to American democracy. “The jobs available to the working class no longer contain the kind of craftsmanship or satisfaction or meaning that can take the sting out of their low and stagnant wages.”
But something happens in this discussion of working-class anger. Sullivan, like others tackling the subject, moves from an analysis of the “working class” to an analysis of the “white working class,” gliding between the two as if they’re synonymous. “This is an age in which a woman might succeed a black man as president, but also one in which a member of the white working class has declining options to make a decent living,” he writes. “This is a time when gay people can be married in 50 states, even as working-class families are hanging by a thread.”
This is a critical conflation. If the “working class” and the “white working class” are synonymous, then Trump is a genuine threat—a demagogue who can channel and ride mass frustration to the White House. And it bolsters Sullivan’s (and others’) subordinate point: that liberals bear a great deal of blame for Trump for having stigmatized working-class morals and attitudes and ignoring their anger and economic anxiety, thus alienating them from mainstream politics (http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/04/is_liberalism_smug.html) and leaving them ripe for a figure like Trump.
Except there’s a problem. The American working class has changed. A lot.
Chief Political Correspondent is black, who wrote this story
http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/Authors/jamelle_bouie-authorbio.png
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/05/republican_politicians_won_t_say_donald_trump_s_na me.html
What Pundits Keep Getting Wrong About Donald Trump and the Working Class
The working class is blacker and browner than it used to be.
Most analysis of Donald Trump’s electability hinges on his working-class appeal—specifically, working-class anger at the economic arrangements of a post-recession America. “The deeper, long-term reasons for today’s rage are not hard to find, although many of us elites have shamefully found ourselves able to ignore them,” writes Andrew Sullivan (http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/04/america-tyranny-donald-trump.html), now of New York magazine, in an essay on Trump, his rise, and its threat to American democracy. “The jobs available to the working class no longer contain the kind of craftsmanship or satisfaction or meaning that can take the sting out of their low and stagnant wages.”
But something happens in this discussion of working-class anger. Sullivan, like others tackling the subject, moves from an analysis of the “working class” to an analysis of the “white working class,” gliding between the two as if they’re synonymous. “This is an age in which a woman might succeed a black man as president, but also one in which a member of the white working class has declining options to make a decent living,” he writes. “This is a time when gay people can be married in 50 states, even as working-class families are hanging by a thread.”
This is a critical conflation. If the “working class” and the “white working class” are synonymous, then Trump is a genuine threat—a demagogue who can channel and ride mass frustration to the White House. And it bolsters Sullivan’s (and others’) subordinate point: that liberals bear a great deal of blame for Trump for having stigmatized working-class morals and attitudes and ignoring their anger and economic anxiety, thus alienating them from mainstream politics (http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/04/is_liberalism_smug.html) and leaving them ripe for a figure like Trump.
Except there’s a problem. The American working class has changed. A lot.
Chief Political Correspondent is black, who wrote this story
http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/Authors/jamelle_bouie-authorbio.png
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/05/republican_politicians_won_t_say_donald_trump_s_na me.html