Month: May 2016

From John Stoehr's "The Donald's Trump Card Isn't an Ace: The media narrative that Donald Trump is winning over white working-class voters is false" at U.S. News: "That Trump performed more or less on par with his rivals in Rust Belt states suggests that his supporters were already firmly conservative or already primed to choose any Republican, populist or otherwise, according to Andrew Levison, author of "The White Working Class Today" and analyst for "The Democratic Strategist," a journal of public opinion and strategy. Indeed, Levison observed in a March white paper, Trump performed best not with Midwestern Reagan Democrats but with white working-class Southerners. This, he argued, isn't due to Trump's "right-wing version of economic populism" but "the racial and xenophobic elements of his platform."

The Nazis are happy with Trump. “White men in America and across the planet are partying like it’s 1999 following Trump’s decisive victory over the evil enemies of our race,” exulted Andrew Anglin at the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer. "He is getting white people excited for the first time in my memory,” said a Stormfront participant. “Look at the crowds when he gets the cameras to pan out. They're huge (or should I say YUGE?) and almost 100% white. It is fantastic to see.”