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| White Working-Class Voters May Not Care About Trump Scandals |
| 2018-04-20 |
| h/t Instapundit [NYMag] It’s been obvious from the very beginning of the Trump era of American politics that a lot of things about the man who became the 45th president that worry upscale Republicans (and their elite #NeverTrump representatives) just don’t matter as much to the white working-class folk who have provided Trump’s sturdiest base of support. Some of it may have to do with news consumption habits: If you watch Fox News rather than read National Review, you got a very different impression of the options available to conservative-leaning voters in 2016. It’s also entirely possible that white working-class voters are more cynical than their more highly educated counterparts about the moral tone of politicians who are not named Trump; "They’re all crooks" is a pretty common sentiment in those circles. In any event, this is a question that is not important strictly as a matter of retrospectively figuring out how a man of Trump’s character and background managed to get himself elected in the first place; as Ron Brownstein observes, it may well determine the political impact of the continuing Trump scandals we are hearing about nearly every day: |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #8 ...avoiding... |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2018-04-20 18:52 |
| #7 The race card is played out for me, and every effort to circle a discussion back to race or shadowed by race casues me to simply stop listening to the source, and repeats make that dismissal permanent. I honestly wonder if voiding each other isn't a better answer than this never ending victimhood claim by most people of color. Sadly it still works on many, so they won't stop, but I'm pretty much done caring about it or them! |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2018-04-20 18:52 |
| #6 "They’re all crooks" Cuts to the chase. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2018-04-20 13:37 |
| #5 NYMag is a little slow on the uptake aren't they. Fake scandal after fake scandal after we've got him now only just sends his poll numbers up. The game is over, the players exposed, and that crap (and other Republicans failure to punch back) is why Trump was elected in the first place. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2018-04-20 11:15 |
| #4 As a southern, middle class, working ex-Navy man, I still haven't seen any Trump scandals, but I keep seeing all the anti-American efforts by the lefties! Plus all their corruption! |
| Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 2018-04-20 09:39 |
| #3 IMO, the left doesn't care about scandals either. Look at all the scandals they have had which they have ignored for a such long time. The left is all about power and what it allows them to do--legal or illegal to maintain that power. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2018-04-20 08:28 |
| #2 Um, have they looked at the alternatives? These supposed scandals pale in comparison to the "shenanigans" of the Kennedys, Clintons, Obamas and other assorted drek. White working class voters are playing by the never trumper/dem rules now. He may be a bit of a scoundrel but he's OUR scoundrel for a change. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2018-04-20 08:22 |
| #1 But the main thing, IMO, the working class people appreciate anybody who cares about them. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-04-20 03:16 |