We should "understand" the Trumpists, The New York Times has said, empathasize, "feel their pain."
I have been forced to do that as a person I love, my brother, is a Trumpist. I have read as much as a normal person can about them, have carefully read and thought about my brother's emails, one of which I reprinted in its entirety.
I came to this painful understanding of why my brother is a Trumpist: he is a racist. He has always been, I have always known that but he did not come out and say "I voted for Trump because he is a fellow racist," along with other Trumpists like David Duke,
like Eva Braun, er Birgitt Peterson.
like Eva Braun, er Birgitt Peterson.
I have urged understanding Trumpists until the understanders come to that understanding and then I urged the expurgation of Trump and the Trumpists. Condemn, isolate, arrest, destroy.
There has now been various survey research done by reputable concerns that should end the understanding of Trumpists. They are racist. -30- The Washington Post summarized the findings the other day:
A Pew Research Center national poll released Thursday found that 59 percent of registered voters nationwide think that an increasing number of people from different races, ethnic groups and nationalities makes the United States a better place; only 8 percent say this makes America worse. But among Trump backers, 39 percent say diversity improves America, while 42 percent say it makes no difference and 17 percent say it actually makes America worse. Supporters of GOP rivals Ted Cruz and John Kasich were significantly more upbeat on diversity.
This was no anomaly. The week before, my Washington Post colleagues Max Ehrenfreund and Scott Clement reported on a Post/ABC News poll that asked whether people thought it more of a problem that African-Americans and Latinos are “losing out because of preferences for whites” or whether whites are “losing out because of preferences for blacks and Hispanics.”
Trump had the support of 34 percent of Republican-leaning voters overall, but among those who said that whites are losing out, 43 percent supported Trump. Ehrenfreund and Clement did a further analysis finding that racial anxiety was at least as important as economic anxiety — the factor most commonly associated with Trump backers — in predicting support for Trump. Though the two factors were statistically close, those “who voiced concerns about white status appeared to be even more likely to support Trump than those who said they were struggling economically.”
...Clement, the Post’s polling manager, told me: “What was striking to me in analyzing the data is that even after controlling for a variety of demographics and attitudes [including all those above], believing whites are losing out continued to be a key predictor of Trump support. ... Its importance persisted under a wide range of scenarios.”
This, in turn, confirms previous findings. Earlier this year, University of California Irvine political scientist Michael Tesler, citing data from RAND Corp.’s Presidential Election Panel Survey, found that “Trump performs best among Americans who express more resentment toward African-Americans and immigrants and who tend to evaluate whites more favorably than minority groups.”
Trump’s supporters overall tend to be older, disproportionately male, less likely to have a college degree and more likely to be suffering economically. But race is an ever-present factor. Trump support, it has been shown, is high in areas where the number of racist search queries on Google is also high. The Post’s Jeff Guo has documented that Trump performs best in areas where the middle-aged white death-rate is highest, that he effectively channels “white suffering into political support."
Finally, there was a gathering this weekend in Las Vegas of Jewish Republicans. The New York Times quoted one, a lawyer named Charlie Spies:
"No American politician should be compared to Hitler because of the unique, horrific nature of the Nazi genocide," said Spies, a former Jeb Bush supporter.
PAUSE: The Times intends readers to pause there, Mr. Spies intends his interlocutors to pause there
and so we pause. IT IS TRUE! It is Jewish orthodoxy that the Holocaust is unique in human history, that Hitler and the Nazis were unique in history, that is accurate history, and it is Jewish orthodoxy that any analogies to Hitler and the Nazis elevate Hitler and the Nazis from the uniquely evil to the merely uncommonly evil. Ergo: I withdraw my statements calling Trump a Nazi...That is hard. Okay, I've done it. I do not withdraw my statement calling the Fraulein on the header Eva Braun BECAUSE SHE EMIGRATED FROM GERMANY TO THE U.S. AND IS GIVING THE FUCKING NAZI SALUTE! I solicit guidance from Mr. Spies on that matter. UNPAUSE.
"Having said that, there is an issue of tone and being able to whip up crowds, often directed at segments of society that get scapegoated. Anybody who has studied history would be concerned watching that."
Well...The Trumpists have "issues"? We should come to understand the roots of these manifestations of racist 'tudes, deprived childhoods, too much TV, what-fucking-ever?
There is "an issue of tone"? Like maybe if her arm weren't so straight that would be a better "tone"? Is David Duke's tone any better? "Whipping up crowds" (and whipping crowds) is, wait, wait, don't tell me, what the Nazi Brownshirts did, no Chaz? What "history" are you referencing Mr. Spies but the NAZI HISTORY?!
You adopt your, barely oblique, tone Mr. Spies in conformity with orthodox Jewish historiography not with Trumpist reality. No, my brother-the-Trumpist doesn't want Auschwitz-Upon-Hudson constructed, he merely wants "The Wall," an end to illegal immigration and to legal Muslim immigration, that's not the gas chambers, and Ted Cruz merely wants Muslim neighborhoods patrolled and surveilled...Oh! Like Jews were confined in the ghettos where the Nazis could keep an eye on 'em.
The thing about walls Mr. Spies, there's this misconception of the historical usage of walls, they keep people in. Pause there, Charlie. The Great Wall of China was not intended to prevent foreign invasion, common misunderstanding, the Great Wall of China was constructed with the main objective of enabling the Chinese Center to control the ethnic Han within. Same with the "Anti-Fascist Protective Wall," snicker, snicker, that's what they called it but you don't believe that, do you Charlie? No, you're a Republican but you're not that stupid, the Berlin Wall was not constructed to
keep Fascist West Berliners out, it was to keep Communist East Berliners in. This is the point with walls: control, it's about control. UNpause.
We should be "concerned" watching all of this, that is the "tone" Charlie Spies urges us to adopt. Well...Okay man, whatever you say, count me among the concerned. My level of concern however-Just so you know.-is nearly identical to that of Woody Allen in Manhattan: when it comes to Nazis op-ed pieces don't work, baseball bats work.
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A Pew Research Center national poll released Thursday found that 59 percent of registered voters nationwide think that an increasing number of people from different races, ethnic groups and nationalities makes the United States a better place; only 8 percent say this makes America worse. But among Trump backers, 39 percent say diversity improves America, while 42 percent say it makes no difference and 17 percent say it actually makes America worse. Supporters of GOP rivals Ted Cruz and John Kasich were significantly more upbeat on diversity.
This was no anomaly. The week before, my Washington Post colleagues Max Ehrenfreund and Scott Clement reported on a Post/ABC News poll that asked whether people thought it more of a problem that African-Americans and Latinos are “losing out because of preferences for whites” or whether whites are “losing out because of preferences for blacks and Hispanics.”
Trump had the support of 34 percent of Republican-leaning voters overall, but among those who said that whites are losing out, 43 percent supported Trump. Ehrenfreund and Clement did a further analysis finding that racial anxiety was at least as important as economic anxiety — the factor most commonly associated with Trump backers — in predicting support for Trump. Though the two factors were statistically close, those “who voiced concerns about white status appeared to be even more likely to support Trump than those who said they were struggling economically.”
...Clement, the Post’s polling manager, told me: “What was striking to me in analyzing the data is that even after controlling for a variety of demographics and attitudes [including all those above], believing whites are losing out continued to be a key predictor of Trump support. ... Its importance persisted under a wide range of scenarios.”
This, in turn, confirms previous findings. Earlier this year, University of California Irvine political scientist Michael Tesler, citing data from RAND Corp.’s Presidential Election Panel Survey, found that “Trump performs best among Americans who express more resentment toward African-Americans and immigrants and who tend to evaluate whites more favorably than minority groups.”
Trump’s supporters overall tend to be older, disproportionately male, less likely to have a college degree and more likely to be suffering economically. But race is an ever-present factor. Trump support, it has been shown, is high in areas where the number of racist search queries on Google is also high. The Post’s Jeff Guo has documented that Trump performs best in areas where the middle-aged white death-rate is highest, that he effectively channels “white suffering into political support."
Finally, there was a gathering this weekend in Las Vegas of Jewish Republicans. The New York Times quoted one, a lawyer named Charlie Spies:
"No American politician should be compared to Hitler because of the unique, horrific nature of the Nazi genocide," said Spies, a former Jeb Bush supporter.
PAUSE: The Times intends readers to pause there, Mr. Spies intends his interlocutors to pause there
and so we pause. IT IS TRUE! It is Jewish orthodoxy that the Holocaust is unique in human history, that Hitler and the Nazis were unique in history, that is accurate history, and it is Jewish orthodoxy that any analogies to Hitler and the Nazis elevate Hitler and the Nazis from the uniquely evil to the merely uncommonly evil. Ergo: I withdraw my statements calling Trump a Nazi...That is hard. Okay, I've done it. I do not withdraw my statement calling the Fraulein on the header Eva Braun BECAUSE SHE EMIGRATED FROM GERMANY TO THE U.S. AND IS GIVING THE FUCKING NAZI SALUTE! I solicit guidance from Mr. Spies on that matter. UNPAUSE.
"Having said that, there is an issue of tone and being able to whip up crowds, often directed at segments of society that get scapegoated. Anybody who has studied history would be concerned watching that."
Well...The Trumpists have "issues"? We should come to understand the roots of these manifestations of racist 'tudes, deprived childhoods, too much TV, what-fucking-ever?
There is "an issue of tone"? Like maybe if her arm weren't so straight that would be a better "tone"? Is David Duke's tone any better? "Whipping up crowds" (and whipping crowds) is, wait, wait, don't tell me, what the Nazi Brownshirts did, no Chaz? What "history" are you referencing Mr. Spies but the NAZI HISTORY?!
You adopt your, barely oblique, tone Mr. Spies in conformity with orthodox Jewish historiography not with Trumpist reality. No, my brother-the-Trumpist doesn't want Auschwitz-Upon-Hudson constructed, he merely wants "The Wall," an end to illegal immigration and to legal Muslim immigration, that's not the gas chambers, and Ted Cruz merely wants Muslim neighborhoods patrolled and surveilled...Oh! Like Jews were confined in the ghettos where the Nazis could keep an eye on 'em.
The thing about walls Mr. Spies, there's this misconception of the historical usage of walls, they keep people in. Pause there, Charlie. The Great Wall of China was not intended to prevent foreign invasion, common misunderstanding, the Great Wall of China was constructed with the main objective of enabling the Chinese Center to control the ethnic Han within. Same with the "Anti-Fascist Protective Wall," snicker, snicker, that's what they called it but you don't believe that, do you Charlie? No, you're a Republican but you're not that stupid, the Berlin Wall was not constructed to
keep Fascist West Berliners out, it was to keep Communist East Berliners in. This is the point with walls: control, it's about control. UNpause.
We should be "concerned" watching all of this, that is the "tone" Charlie Spies urges us to adopt. Well...Okay man, whatever you say, count me among the concerned. My level of concern however-Just so you know.-is nearly identical to that of Woody Allen in Manhattan: when it comes to Nazis op-ed pieces don't work, baseball bats work.
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