Post #2914557
2024-12-16 22:06 UTC
As Buckle says, following the 2024 election, the media and lots of other commentators defaulted to the easy, lazy, false narrative that "economic anxiety" drives Trump voters:
"Far-left radicals, socialists, liberals, centrists, old-fashioned conservatives, academics, mainstream journalists, and everyone else who simply cannot imagine voting for the man themselves, all tend to default to one narrative:"
#Trump #economy #race #gender #cruelty #solidarity #CommonGood
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@wdlindsy@toad.social 2024-12-16 22:07
"Many Americans are struggling economically, left behind, urgently wanting a more egalitarian society, and turned to a fascist movement in desperation. But: Study after study [after the 2016 election] found ‘racial resentment’ a far bigger driver of support for Trump than ‘economic anxiety’. Neither Trump’s core support, nor the drift of formerly Democratic voters to him are well explained by economic desperation." #Trump #economy #race #gender #cruelty #solidarity #CommonGood /4