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My problem with this is, if there is a coalition of white supremacists powerful enough to propel a President to a decisive victory, where were they 4 years ago?
by imgabe 10y ago
My problem with this is, if there is a coalition of white supremacists powerful enough to propel a President to a decisive victory, where were they 4 years ago? 8 years ago? Why did they vote for Obama? It doesn't make sense. They suddenly care enough to go out and vote in large numbers, but they didn't care 4 years ago to vote against an African-American president? That doesn't add up. The only conclusion is that Trump's win is due to something other than racism.
I'm not saying there aren't racists who support Trump. There undoubtedly are. But that's not why he won.
- maxerickson 10y agoIf you combine the closest states, winning this election will be a matter of a few hundred thousand votes. In 2012, the margin in several of the individual closest states was larger than that (and even larger in 2008).
- hga 10y agoYou don't have to go so far as "supremacy" to have one good explanation along these lines, unless it's axiomatic that it's racist and supremacist for whites, but no other group, to join the game of identity politics. That could be what changed in the very people in the Rust Belt who voted for Obama in 2008 and then gave the election to Trump in 2016. I don't consider it to exactly be a good thing (among other minor details, absent e.g. Trump building that Big Beautiful Wall, it will inevitably lead to civil war and ethnic cleansing), but I think it's hard to argue it's not inevitable, unless whites just collectively decide to commit suicide as so many are individually.