White Supremacy Is a Core Part of Trumpism
Published at 18:36 on 9 November 2016
That’s truly frightening. No disagreement there.
But it’s not the prime reason why all Trump voters supported him. He attracted the votes of a many less-educated Whites that voted for Obama. Voted for, bought the message of hope, only to find out that hope was mostly hype. And, when faced with an even more openly pro-Establishment Democrat candidate, decided to cast a big “fuck you” vote for Trump.
Some “racists;” they ignored race and voted for the first non-white presidential candidate in history… many of them twice!
To write all Trump voters as nothing more than “deplorable” is to make a grave error. Even Hillary didn’t do that. Her quote was:
“You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right?”
Who knows how accurate her 50% estimate was, but she was spot-on in her remark that only some but not all Trump voters qualify for the “deplorable” label.