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2016-11-10 Home Front: Politix
Trump supporters driven by white fear: Analyst
Even the black and brown ones? Mr. Trump did better with those demographics than Mr. Romney did.
[Iran Press TV] US Republican president-elect Donald Trump won the race against her Democratic rival Hillary Clinton
... sometimes described as Deplorable, Irredeemable and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Frederick T. Frelinghuysen ...
 by causing "white America" to panic and stirring "white fear" among people who do not want minorities to grow, says an American political analyst.

Speaking to Press TV on Wednesday, Alan Bean, an executive director at the Friends of Justice, said there was a significant reason why the Democratic Party lost the race to the White House despite having the elite and the mass media on their side.

"The really amazing things about this election is that all of the elites in America, whether we are talking about the universities, the academy, the financial people on Wall Street, the captains of industry, certainly the mass media... almost all newspapers in the United States endorsed Hillary Clinton," he said.

"Even Fox News which usually is the voice of the very conservative white America was somewhat divided on Trump... and yet he won," the analyst noted.

The election result indicated that America is reaching a "tipping point" where minorities are "growing very rapidly" while the younger generations are increasingly developing liberal mindsets.
David French of the National Review digs into the statistics:
Dear America, This Is Important -- Trump Did Not Win Because of Racism

Last night, CNN analyst Van Jones — after offering his congratulations to Trump supporters — got quite emotional, claiming Trump’s win represented something he called a “whitelash.” Here’s the footage:
Video at the link.
If the data supports his assertion, we shouldn’t shrink from it. Indeed, the notion that identity politics from the Left is being met with identity politics from the Right is nearly received conventional wisdom, as is the notion that our nation is more racially polarized than any time in recent memory.

Or maybe not. The exit polls are remarkable. Would you believe that Mitt Romney won a greater percentage of the white vote than Donald Trump? Mitt took 59 percent while Trump won 58 percent. Would you believe that Trump improved the GOP’s position with black and Hispanic voters? Obama won 93 percent of the black vote. Hillary won 88 percent. Obama won 71 percent of the Latino vote. Hillary won 65 percent. Critically, millions of minority voters apparently stayed home. Trump’s total vote is likely to land somewhere between John McCain’s and Romney’s (and well short of George W. Bush’s 2004 total), while the Democrats have lost almost 10 million voters since 2008.

And all this happened even as Democrats doubled-down on their own identity politics. Black Lives Matter went from a fringe movement to the Democratic mainstream in the blink of an eye. Radical sexual politics were mainstreamed even faster. White voters responded mainly by voting in the same or lesser numbers as the last three presidential elections. That’s not a “whitelash,” it’s consistency.

As I know all too well, a portion of Trump’s online support is viciously racist. Conservative and liberal Americans can and must exercise extreme vigilance to insure that not one alt-right “thinker” has a place in the Trump administration, but it’s simply wrong to attribute Trump’s win to some form of great white wave. Trump won because minority voters let him win. The numbers don’t lie. The “coalition of the ascendant” stayed home.
Posted by Fred 2016-11-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ]  Top
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#1 "The really amazing things about this election is that all of the elites in America, whether we are talking about the universities, the academy, the financial people on Wall Street, the captains of industry, certainly the mass media... almost all newspapers in the United States endorsed Hillary Clinton," he said.

"Even Fox News which usually is the voice of the very conservative white America was somewhat divided on Trump... and yet he won," the analyst noted


Fox Butterfield...you know the rest.
Posted by charger 2016-11-10 00:47||   2016-11-10 00:47|| Front Page Top

#2 So, the country that voted for a black Marxist on two occasions is now racist? Good to know!
Posted by Raj 2016-11-10 01:03||   2016-11-10 01:03|| Front Page Top

#3 Driven by rage at elitists who dare to tell us how to think and call us names when we disagree with them.

No fear at all, just anger. And the worst, most criminal, terrible lying candidate the Democrats have put up ever.
Posted by Injun Bucket8891 2016-11-10 03:19||   2016-11-10 03:19|| Front Page Top

#4 

Maybe some fear about the cancer gnawing at our country.
Posted by JohnQC 2016-11-10 06:49||   2016-11-10 06:49|| Front Page Top

#5 Conservative and liberal Americans can and must exercise extreme vigilance

The National Review frequently gets them confused.
Posted by Pappy 2016-11-10 08:56||   2016-11-10 08:56|| Front Page Top

#6 They've sure confused me plenty over the years.

Re fear...

Most triggering thing about whiteness
For students of Whitey's uptightness?
Bombarded by rudeness
And crudeness and lewdness,
His hatred's still masked by politeness.

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2016-11-10 09:54||   2016-11-10 09:54|| Front Page Top

#7 The day after they voted for the black Marxists the whites in America were called racists. Perhaps the word has been more than a little overused and no longer has any sting left.
Posted by rjschwarz 2016-11-10 10:51||   2016-11-10 10:51|| Front Page Top

#8 I thought voting "Identity Politics" was patriotic in 2008, 2012?

Ohhhhh....just not for us pale people of privilege™
Posted by Frank G 2016-11-10 11:00||   2016-11-10 11:00|| Front Page Top

#9 Trump supporters driven by white fear

Well, they're deplorable - what'd you expect.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-11-10 11:00||   2016-11-10 11:00|| Front Page Top

#10 Incidentally (h/t Instapundit) Most of Trump’s progress came from the final component—the shift within the nonwhite vote—closing Obama’s 63 percent margin over Romney to only a 52 percent margin for Clinton.”
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-11-10 11:22||   2016-11-10 11:22|| Front Page Top

#11 Nate Silver thinks blue collar whites have become aware of their minority status and are now voting like a minority, a damn big minority.
Posted by Shipman 2016-11-10 16:52||   2016-11-10 16:52|| Front Page Top

#12 Multiculturalism is tribalism with an academic gloss.

The biggest tribe in the country is beginning to do what all the other tribes are doing.

Vote tribally.

It may be "deplorable", but it was the Left who created this state of affairs.

Posted by charger 2016-11-10 21:09||   2016-11-10 21:09|| Front Page Top

#13 I think it's they who should have white fear.
Posted by Skidmark 2016-11-10 23:40||   2016-11-10 23:40|| Front Page Top

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