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If we have learned one thing about Trump’s base, it should be to not confuse attitudes expressed in approval ratings with any potential change in their voting patterns. Millions of Trump voters openly disapproved of his performance and personality across his three campaigns. Yet they would never consider an alternative that shared power with people of color and required relinquishing the full public authority of their whiteness. The coastal elite’s calls to sympathize with the white working class are only a rejustification of their psychological wages, not an attempt to part them from the racism they cash out from them. No amount of persuasion will move those who have chosen to maintain control and violence over putting food on the table when the point of their trade-off is keeping others from putting food on theirs.
— Saida Grundy, “The white working class knows the American project isn’t working. Here’s why that will never matter to them”
That so many poor people in this country vote Republican has boggled my mind since I was a boy. Both parties do the bidding of the oligarchy, for sure, but the GOP’s naked contempt for the poor has always been repulsively obvious. Yet a majority of working class whites—and plenty of working class brown folk, too—persistently show up to vote for a party that very clearly does not have their best interests in mind. Why?
Bigotry, of course. Racism is certainly the most powerful motivator; but also fear and hatred of queer and trans persons, persons with disabilities, and anyone who isn’t Christian.
Like Guante says:
Republican party found a future in your frontin’
They never talk about it, but it’s central to their message
Without the fear of it they would never get elected
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