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William Lindsey 
As Wajahat Ali points out, we're being told that "Americans voted for Republicans because they were promised a better economy, cheaper eggs, security, and the romanticized promise of becoming 'great again.”'
Yet, we immediately see them as victors roll out stepped-up attacks on trans people.
How do those attacks address the price of eggs? And what did Americans who say it's all about eggs REALLY want when they voted for Trump?
#Trump #fascism #cruelty #future
/13
https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/how-will-bullying-trans-people-get
How Will Bullying Trans People Get Us Cheaper Eggs? On Nancy Mace and the GOP’s Crusade of Cruelty and Division
Since Republicans have no solutions for Americans seeking better economic opportunities, they resort to their cruel & divisive strategy of scapegoating the trans community. It's time we say, "Enough."
"They wanted the 'old stability,' the patriarchy that has run the country for generations. In many ways, that's what’s at the heart of the conservative coalition. It's not a rejection of the established order; it's an embrace of it."
Voters may be in for a shock, though, when they see what they ACTUALLY get:
"The Trump presidency isn’t a pick-your-adventure experience, where you can get some parts of Trump’s plan, but not all of it."
"Voters who ignored the facts about the economy and used them as an excuse to vote for Trump weren’t people who wanted a change. They were people who, actually, didn’t want any change at all. They didn't like new policies advanced by the Biden-Harris administration, a more inclusive vision of America where traditionally marginalized people had equal opportunity. They didn’t want a new generation of leadership."
~ Joyce Vance
"Overall, 52 percent of respondents to a poll last year by the Public Religion Research Institute and the Brookings Institution thought that America’s best days are behind it. Fifty-five percent, including three quarters of Republicans, said the country’s way of life has mostly changed for the worse since the 1950s.
Altogether, three-fourths of Americans today believe the United States is headed in the wrong direction."
"In a NORC survey in 2017 that focused on questions related to American identity, almost half of respondents said that illegal immigration amounted to a threat to 'the American way of life.' Seventy-one percent of respondents to that poll said the United States was 'losing its national identity.'
This unease extends to other dimensions, such as religion and sexuality."
"Just like today, this analysis misses the forest for the trees. Twice already, more or less half of American voters have elected a guy who promises to overthrow the liberal world order — to do away with democratic institutions, values, and norms, trample on human rights, blow up the economy — and to bend the nation, and the world, to his will."
"For all the polls demonstrating Americans’ grim assessment of the economy, consumers have kept up spending as if they have few worries in the world. For all the gripes about the cost of living, real wages for typical American workers have been rising faster than inflation."
"Explaining the rise of Trump as a consequence of economic forces battering the working class is not a new approach. In 2016, we were told the culprit was globalization and the related 'China shock' that destroyed 1 million or so manufacturing jobs. This analysis pegged generally pro-trade mainstream Democrats (and Republicans) as a gang of cosmopolitan elites uninterested in the fortunes of blue-collar Americans."
~ Eduardo Porter
#Trump #fascism #cruelty #future
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/11/19/economy-trump-victory/
Once institutions like the media get on board with that claim and spread it further through the population, people begin to think that what really drew them to the shock-and-awe spectacles with their rejection of norms and frank celebration of cruelty was all about economics in the first place.
It's never about the thrill of cruelty, of targeting demeaned others. It's always about the price of eggs.
But, of course, it's not about that at all.