Trump’s diehard supporters, some of whom are affluent doctors, lawyers, cops, firefighters, teachers, and other professionals, are motivated by “anxiety over race and social standing, not economic distress,” according to this article.
Trump’s diehard supporters, some of whom are affluent doctors, lawyers, cops, firefighters, teachers, and other professionals, are motivated by “anxiety over race and social standing, not economic distress,” according to this article.
Tags: Repugnants
Posted 16 Jan 2021 by Roger Rabbit
in Donald Trump, Economics, Politics, Racism
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Social standing and economics overlap. One usually has one or must have one to have the other. We also have become more a place where class matters. These individuals probably have anxiety related to the other, that is not necessarily racist. The other could be the outsider from the other side of the tracks, from the town down the road, ect. much of which has nothing to do with race. It may have far more to do with the urban/rural split.
There are large areas of America that have been losers in the economic race. A lot of Detroits. Boarded houses, empty Main Streets, churches in disrepair. Many turning to opioids in their despair. No jobs and not much hope. Nor are the poor or oppressed minorities moving to the rust belt to escape all the alleged racism of America. Sure moving to a small town in Oregon did not work out for the Bhagwan, but should work for those seeking to escape the concrete jungle, and something the Black Panthers fought for. Sure seeing black men with rifles going into the courthouse might ruffle a few feathers until those black men join the hunting club or hang out with the NRA crowd at the gun range, and hang out at their preferred bar.
Of course anyone moving to Maine should not expect open arms or being accepted as a full community member as that requires two or three generations.
The author’s bio says, “Emily Peck is a senior reporter who covers business, economics and gender inequality at HuffPost. She is a former Wall Street Journal editor and previously worked for The American Lawyer magazine.” My guess is she has a better handle on this than you do.