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No, it's every kind of populist blame politics. What's unfortunate is that Trumps platform is based purely on emotion, and zero solutions.

by croon 10y ago

kristopolous 10y ago
If you'd like to know more about how it's different, Robert Reich talked about it recently at the Commonwealth Club https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2016-09-27/robert-reich-oddest-presidential-election-living-memory https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2016-09-27/robert-re... and UC Berkeley Sociologist Arlie Hochshchild spent 5 years researching it (https://www.amazon.com/Strangers-Their-Own-Land-Mourning-ebook/dp/B01EEQ9BSW/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8 https://www.amazon.com/Strangers-Their-Own-Land-Mourning-ebo...), here's a Mother Jones article about it http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/08/trump-white-blue-collar-supporters http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/08/trump-white-blue....
- croon 10y ago
  You've edited your original post too many times since I responded it's now unclear what I was protesting, but with this post I think we're actually arguing the same thing. I agree that the Trump campaign is giving voice to populations previously unheard, but that's also what Bernie Sanders did. And while Sanders was obviously somewhat of a moonshot candidate, he had firm beliefs and some plans. Trump is a purely speculative candidate who has flip-flopped on every issue too many times for anyone to count, in an attempt to speak for as wide an audience as possible, uniting them against common enemies. What he does not have is any realistic plans of doing anything good. The subtitle to the motherjones article is literally: "How Donald Trump took a narrative of unfairness and twisted it to his advantage."
  - kristopolous 10y ago
    Well sure ... I just seek to understand these things. I'm not throwing in my hat of support to any candidate. In practice, I've heard the line "I know trump's awful but ..." coming from quite a few surprising places. I can't say "this reality doesn't exist because I choose not to believe in it". If I want to honestly understand the world, I need to be open to ideas I currently do not understand.

No, it's every kind of populist blame politics. What's unfortunate is that Trumps platform is based purely on emotion, and zero solutions.

by croon 10y ago

No, it's every kind of populist blame politics. What's unfortunate is that Trumps platform is based purely on emotion, and zero solutions.

kristopolous 10y ago

If you'd like to know more about how it's different, Robert Reich talked about it recently at the Commonwealth Club https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2016-09-27/robert-reich-oddest-presidential-election-living-memory https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2016-09-27/robert-re... and UC Berkeley Sociologist Arlie Hochshchild spent 5 years researching it (https://www.amazon.com/Strangers-Their-Own-Land-Mourning-ebook/dp/B01EEQ9BSW/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8 https://www.amazon.com/Strangers-Their-Own-Land-Mourning-ebo...), here's a Mother Jones article about it http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/08/trump-white-blue-collar-supporters http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/08/trump-white-blue....

croon 10y ago
You've edited your original post too many times since I responded it's now unclear what I was protesting, but with this post I think we're actually arguing the same thing. I agree that the Trump campaign is giving voice to populations previously unheard, but that's also what Bernie Sanders did. And while Sanders was obviously somewhat of a moonshot candidate, he had firm beliefs and some plans. Trump is a purely speculative candidate who has flip-flopped on every issue too many times for anyone to count, in an attempt to speak for as wide an audience as possible, uniting them against common enemies. What he does not have is any realistic plans of doing anything good. The subtitle to the motherjones article is literally: "How Donald Trump took a narrative of unfairness and twisted it to his advantage."
- kristopolous 10y ago
  Well sure ... I just seek to understand these things. I'm not throwing in my hat of support to any candidate. In practice, I've heard the line "I know trump's awful but ..." coming from quite a few surprising places. I can't say "this reality doesn't exist because I choose not to believe in it". If I want to honestly understand the world, I need to be open to ideas I currently do not understand.