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> he represents a group of people who haven't been represented for the last 40 years No he doesn't. He doesn't appeal to or represent poor whites, those vote D
by munin 10y ago
> he represents a group of people who haven't been represented for the last 40 years
No he doesn't. He doesn't appeal to or represent poor whites, those vote D. He also doesn't appeal to or represent minorities, immigrants, or women. Those also vote D. He appeals to and represents white men that have a household income slightly higher than the median. Those people have been nothing but listened to for the last 140 years.
- jessaustin 10y agoYou've been talking with a different set of poor whites than I have. I'm not a Trump supporter or potential voter, but we fool ourselves when we invoke this caricature.
- aljones 10y agoHopefully their information doesn't come from talking to people. There are better sources. http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-mythology-of-trumps-working-class-support/ http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-mythology-of-trumps-...
- jessaustin 10y agoPrimary voters in early May? Are they somehow relevant?
- alextheparrot 10y agoI think the group he is referring to is my parent's demographic, working class Americans in factories. Whereas the Democratic party once supported labor movements and unionization as a primary cause, social welfare and rights issue have moved to be the primary (Please note this is a generalization, but mirrors their perspective). The result is that they see a candidate who promises isolationist policies (Keep our manufacturing jobs here, as they've seen them go to China and Mexico for decades) as a more viable candidate than one who continues to drive for more globalization. In passing, I'd like to note that my father actually preferred Cruz, which may match your description slightly better, while my mother preferred Trump largely for the reasons I listed above.
- irishcoffee 10y ago> He appeals to and represents white men that have a household income slightly higher than the median. Those people have been nothing but listened to for the last 140 years. I think that describes like... 4% of the population, depending on your definition of "slightly".
- speeder 10y agoI am not even living in US, but wanted to give you some data to show that you are wrong. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/03/04/death-predicts-whether-people-vote-for-donald-trump/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/03/04/death... Also, last I checked women had plenty of voice in the last 40 years... beside being the majority of the voters (and thus always pandered to by default), US have no-fault divorce (something that usually only women want, most no-fault divorce are initiated by women), abortion is legal (Brazil for example where I live, abortion is still mostly illegal), Title IX exists, VAWA exists, more women than men finish college, female labour participation is higher than male, and so on...
- spraak 10y agoNone of your points actually refute that white men with above median income have influenced and been listened to in the past 40 years Or to say it another way, just because those things have happened, doesn't mean anything against what the parent poster wrote