Gary Younge nails it again. This time on Donald Trump’s appeal among a scarily significant portion of Americans:
Trump articulates the frustration and bewilderment of that section of uneducated, unskilled, low-paid white America, whose wages have stagnated and social mobility has stalled that is nostalgic for its local privileges and global status. In recent times, they have lost wars, jobs, houses and confidence.
So when he brands Mexicans “rapists”, Chinese “cheats” and all Muslims potential threats he gives free rein to their insecurities about an increasingly cosmopolitan and less predictable world they feel they have been excluded from.
To that extent, his base is not too different from that of the Front National, which just triumphed in the French regional elections, Ukip or any of the range of far-right parties currently making headway in Europe.
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December 13, 2015 at 5:33 pm
Stan B.
It’s been in the mainstream via Conservative talk radio and FOX for quite some time, Trump is just the first Presidential candidate to shrewdly drop the code speak and capitalize on verbalizing it directly (the latter becoming ever the more palatable any time non domestic terrorism can be manipulated to incite as much fear among the public as possible ).