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The Unabashed Demonization Of Poor White Americans
[WIRE] A lot of the discussion you’ll hear about "identity politics" focuses on how immoral and destructive it is, and for good reason. Judging people on the basis of characteristics they can’t control is wrong.Decent people understand that. But a lesser-known side effect of identity politics is that it leaves the people who believe in it — the daytime anchors of MSNBC, for example — completely bewildered by major political events. Identity politics makes its adherents significantly dumber; there’s no other way to put it. Take the election of Donald Trump in 2016, for example. This was eight years ago, and by now, most of us have a pretty good idea why it happened. Trump, unlike Hillary Clinton, did not tell coal miners that he was going to put them out of business. He didn’t describe half the country as "deplorable," or extol the virtues of free trade in towns where all the good jobs have moved overseas. Instead, Trump’s message — not his skin color, or his gender, or any other aspect of his identity — resonated with tens of millions of Americans. Whether you disagree with his message or not, that should be obvious. But somehow, it’s not obvious to MSNBC. As of this week, in the year 2024, they’re still very much unsure why Donald Trump won in 2016, and why he’s leading in every presidential poll today. Watch: Posted by: Besoeker 2024-03-05 |
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