Taibbi writes: "Trump's supporters are people who are tired of being told
they have to be part of some kind of coalition in order to have a political
voice. They particularly hate being lectured about alienating minorities,
especially by members of their own party."
Donald Trump currently has a negative 51 percent net unfavorable rating
among Hispanic voters. (photo: Scott Olson/Getty)
The Republicans Are Now Officially the Party of White Paranoia
By Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone
05 September 15
The rise of Trump obliterates all other issues - campaign 2016 is now almost
entirely about race
BC News published an intriguing poll the other day, one that spelled out a
growing racial divide:
"Nonwhites see Trump negatively by a vast 17-79 percent. That said, whites
are the majority group - 64 percent of the adult population - and they now
divide evenly on Trump, 48-49 percent, favorable-unfavorable. Clinton, by
contrast, is far more unpopular than Trump among whites, 34-65 percent. So
while racial and ethnic polarization is on the rise in views of Trump, it
remains even higher for Clinton."
The Republicans already lost virtually the entire black vote (scoring just 4
percent and 6 percent of black voters the last two elections). Now, by
pushing toward the nomination a candidate whose brilliant plan to "make
America great again" is to build a giant wall to keep out Mexican rapists,
they're headed the same route with Hispanics. That's a steep fall for a
party that won 44 percent of the Hispanic vote as recently as 2004.
Trump's supporters are people who are tired of being told they have to be
part of some kind of coalition in order to have a political voice. They
particularly hate being lectured about alienating minorities, especially by
members of their own party.
Just a few weeks ago, for instance, establishment GOP spokesghoul George
Will spent a whole column haranguing readers about how Trump was ruining his
party's chances for victory. He noted that Mitt Romney might have won in
2012 if he'd pulled even slightly more than 27 percent of the Hispanic vote.
Will blasted Trump's giant wall idea and even ridiculed the candidate's
deportation plan by comparing Trump to Hitler:
"The big costs, in decades and dollars (hundreds of billions), of Trump's
project could be reduced if, say, the targets were required to sew yellow
patches on their clothing to advertise their coming expulsion."
It's not clear how forcing 11 million people to wear yellow patches saves
money, but whatever. However it was supposed to be taken, the shock argument
didn't work.
A few days later, in a rare episode of National Review-on-National Review
crime, blogger Ramesh Ponnuru blasted Will for his hysterics. He argued
Romney wouldn't have won even with a 45 percent bump in the Hispanic vote.
"He needed more votes, obviously," Ponnuru wrote, "but he didn't need more
Hispanic votes in particular."
Ponnuru was echoing an idea already expressed by the conservative
commentariat. Hack-among-hacks Byron York said the same thing in the
Washington Examiner back in 2013. He argued that even 70 percent of the
Hispanic vote wouldn't have helped Romney, whose more serious problem "was
that Romney was not able to connect with white voters who were so turned
off. that they abandoned the GOP."
Rush Limbaugh bought what York was selling, arguing that Romney didn't lose
because he failed to convince Hispanic voters that Republicans "like 'em."
"The difference-maker was, a lot of white voters stayed home," Rush said.
Anyway, the night after Ponnuru ran his brief blog post a week and a half
ago, Trump had Univision anchor Jorge Ramos tossed from a press conference
in Dubuque, Iowa, sneering at him to "siddown" and "go back to Univision."
Conservative blogs and social media commentators cheered Trump's decision to
have "butthurt" Jorge Ramos "deported" from the press conference, thereby
turning the whole thing into another brilliant piece of symbolic political
theater for the Donald.
Whether or not it's true that a Republican candidate can win the White House
with a minus-51 percent net unfavorable rating among Hispanic voters
(Trump's well-earned current number) is sort of beside the point. The point
is that Trump clearly feels he can afford to flip off the Hispanic community
and win with a whites-only strategy. And his supporters are loving the idea
that he's trying.
The decision by huge masses of Republican voters to defy D.C.-thinkfluencer
types like George Will and throw in with a carnival act like Trump is no
small thing. For the first time in a generation, Republican voters are
taking their destiny into their own hands.
In the elaborate con that is American electoral politics, the Republican
voter has long been the easiest mark in the game, the biggest dope in the
room. Everyone inside the Beltway knows this. The Republican voters
themselves are the only ones who never saw it.
Elections are about a lot of things, but at the highest level, they're about
money. The people who sponsor election campaigns, who pay the hundreds of
millions of dollars to fund the candidates' charter jets and TV ads and
25-piece marching bands, those people have concrete needs.
They want tax breaks, federal contracts, regulatory relief, cheap financing,
free security for shipping lanes, antitrust waivers and dozens of other
things.
They mostly don't care about abortion or gay marriage or school vouchers or
any of the social issues the rest of us spend our time arguing about. It's
about money for them, and as far as that goes, the CEO class has had a
brilliantly winning electoral strategy for a generation.
They donate heavily to both parties, essentially hiring two different sets
of politicians to market their needs to the population. The Republicans give
them everything that they want, while the Democrats only give them mostly
everything.
They get everything from the Republicans because you don't have to make a
single concession to a Republican voter.
All you have to do to secure a Republican vote is show lots of pictures of
gay people kissing or black kids with their pants pulled down or Mexican
babies at an emergency room. Then you push forward some dingbat like Michele
Bachmann or Sarah Palin to reassure everyone that the Republican Party knows
who the real Americans are. Call it the "Rove 1-2."
That's literally all it's taken to secure decades of Republican votes, a few
patriotic words and a little over-the-pants rubbing. Policywise, a typical
Republican voter never even asks a politician to go to second base.
While we always got free trade agreements and wars and bailouts and mass
deregulation of industry and lots of other stuff the donors definitely
wanted, we didn't get Roe v. Wade overturned or prayer in schools or
balanced budgets or censorship of movies and video games or any of a dozen
other things Republican voters said they wanted.
While it's certainly been fun laughing about the lunacies of people like
Bachmann and John Ashcroft and Ted Cruz, who see the face of Jesus in every
tree stump and believe the globalist left is planning to abolish golf
courses and force country-dwellers to live in city apartments lit by
energy-efficient light bulbs, the truth is that the voters they represented
have been irrelevant for decades.
At least on the Democratic side there was that 5-10 percent of industry
policy demands that voters occasionally rejected, putting a tiny dent in
what otherwise has been a pretty smoothly running oligarchy.
Now that's over. Trump has pulled all of those previously irrelevant voters
completely out of pocket. In a development that has to horrify the donors
who run the GOP, the candidate Trump espouses some truly populist policy
beliefs, including stern warnings about the dire consequences companies will
face under a Trump presidency if they ship American jobs to Mexico and
China.
All that energy the party devoted for decades telling middle American voters
that protectionism was invented by Satan and Karl Marx during a poker game
in Brussels in the mid-1840s, that just disappeared in a puff of smoke.
And all that money the Republican kingmakers funneled into Fox and Clear
Channel over the years, making sure that their voters stayed focused on
ACORN and immigrant-transmitted measles and the New Black Panthers (has
anyone ever actually seen a New Black Panther? Ever?) instead of, say, the
complete disappearance of the manufacturing sector or the mass theft of
their retirement income, all of that's now backing up on them.
The party worked the cattle in their pen into such a dither that now they
won't rest until they get the giant wall that real-life, as-seen-on-TV
billionaire Donald Trump promises will save them from all those
measles-infected rapists pouring over the border.
Not far under the surface of Trump's candidacy lurks a powerful current of
Internet conspiracy theory that's a good two or three degrees loonier than
even the most far-out Tea Party paranoia. Gone are the salad days when
red-staters merely worried about Barack Obama inviting UN tanks to mass on
the borders of Lubbock.
Trump supporters have gone next-level, obsessed with gooney-bird fantasies
about "white genocide," a global plan to exterminate white people by sending
waves of third-world immigrants across American and European borders to
settle and intermarry.
The white-power nerds pushing this stuff don't like the term RINO
(Republican In Name Only) and prefer "cuckservative," a term that's a mix of
"cuckold" and "conservative." Cuck is also a porn term that refers to a
white guy who gets off on watching his wife take it from (usually) a black
man. A cuck is therefore a kind of desexualized race traitor.
So you can see why the Internet lights up when Donald Trump tosses Jorge
Ramos from a presser and tells him "mine's bigger than yours" (Trump was
referring to his heart, but again, whatever). All of Trump's constant
bragging about his money and his poll numbers and his virility speak
directly to this surprisingly vibrant middle American fantasy about a
castrated white America struggling to re-grow its mojo.
Republicans won middle American votes for years by taking advantage of the
fact that their voters didn't know the difference between an elitist and the
actual elite, between a snob and an oligarch. They made sure their voters'
idea of an elitist was Sean Penn hanging out with Hugo Chavez, instead of a
Wall Street bank financing the construction of Chinese factories.
Trump similarly is scoring points with voters who don't know the difference
between feeling sorry for themselves and actually being victims. We live in
a society that is changing for a lot of reasons, and some of those changes
feel annoying to certain kinds of people, particularly older white folks who
don't like language-policing and other aspects of political correctness.
But as basketball star turned pundit Kareem Abdul-Jabbar pointed out earlier
this week, PC isn't a new thing, or even a thing at all. It's just an
"emotional challenge every generation has had to go through." We get older,
our kids correct our bad habits, it happens.
Not to Trump's supporters. They've turned some minor cultural changes into a
vast conspiracy of white victimhood. They're eating up Trump's "Make America
Great Again" theme (which one supporter hilariously explained must be his
true goal, because "it's on his hat"), because it's a fantasy tale of a
once-great culture ruined by an invasion of mongrel criminals.
For reasons that are, again, obvious to everyone but Republican voters, this
"woe is us" narrative is never to fly with the rest of the country,
including especially (one imagines) the nonwhite population. Few sane people
are going to waste a vote on a sob story about how rough things have gotten
for white people. But Trump supporters are clinging to this fantasy far more
fiercely than red-state voters were ever clinging to guns or religion.
That leaves us facing a future in which national elections will no longer be
decided by ideas, but by numbers. It will be a turnout battle between people
who believe in a multicultural vision for the country, and those who don't.
Every other issue, from taxes to surveillance to war to jobs to education,
will take a distant back seat to this ongoing, moronic referendum on white
victimhood. And there's nothing any of us can do about it except wait it
out, and wonder if our politics only gets dumber from here.
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The Republicans Are Now Officially the Party of White Paranoia
By Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone
05 September 15
The rise of Trump obliterates all other issues - campaign 2016 is now almost
entirely about race
BC News published an intriguing poll the other day, one that spelled out a
growing racial divide:
"Nonwhites see Trump negatively by a vast 17-79 percent. That said, whites
are the majority group - 64 percent of the adult population - and they now
divide evenly on Trump, 48-49 percent, favorable-unfavorable. Clinton, by
contrast, is far more unpopular than Trump among whites, 34-65 percent. So
while racial and ethnic polarization is on the rise in views of Trump, it
remains even higher for Clinton."
The Republicans already lost virtually the entire black vote (scoring just 4
percent and 6 percent of black voters the last two elections). Now, by
pushing toward the nomination a candidate whose brilliant plan to "make
America great again" is to build a giant wall to keep out Mexican rapists,
they're headed the same route with Hispanics. That's a steep fall for a
party that won 44 percent of the Hispanic vote as recently as 2004.
Trump's supporters are people who are tired of being told they have to be
part of some kind of coalition in order to have a political voice. They
particularly hate being lectured about alienating minorities, especially by
members of their own party.
Just a few weeks ago, for instance, establishment GOP spokesghoul George
Will spent a whole column haranguing readers about how Trump was ruining his
party's chances for victory. He noted that Mitt Romney might have won in
2012 if he'd pulled even slightly more than 27 percent of the Hispanic vote.
Will blasted Trump's giant wall idea and even ridiculed the candidate's
deportation plan by comparing Trump to Hitler:
"The big costs, in decades and dollars (hundreds of billions), of Trump's
project could be reduced if, say, the targets were required to sew yellow
patches on their clothing to advertise their coming expulsion."
It's not clear how forcing 11 million people to wear yellow patches saves
money, but whatever. However it was supposed to be taken, the shock argument
didn't work.
A few days later, in a rare episode of National Review-on-National Review
crime, blogger Ramesh Ponnuru blasted Will for his hysterics. He argued
Romney wouldn't have won even with a 45 percent bump in the Hispanic vote.
"He needed more votes, obviously," Ponnuru wrote, "but he didn't need more
Hispanic votes in particular."
Ponnuru was echoing an idea already expressed by the conservative
commentariat. Hack-among-hacks Byron York said the same thing in the
Washington Examiner back in 2013. He argued that even 70 percent of the
Hispanic vote wouldn't have helped Romney, whose more serious problem "was
that Romney was not able to connect with white voters who were so turned
off. that they abandoned the GOP."
Rush Limbaugh bought what York was selling, arguing that Romney didn't lose
because he failed to convince Hispanic voters that Republicans "like 'em."
"The difference-maker was, a lot of white voters stayed home," Rush said.
Anyway, the night after Ponnuru ran his brief blog post a week and a half
ago, Trump had Univision anchor Jorge Ramos tossed from a press conference
in Dubuque, Iowa, sneering at him to "siddown" and "go back to Univision."
Conservative blogs and social media commentators cheered Trump's decision to
have "butthurt" Jorge Ramos "deported" from the press conference, thereby
turning the whole thing into another brilliant piece of symbolic political
theater for the Donald.
Whether or not it's true that a Republican candidate can win the White House
with a minus-51 percent net unfavorable rating among Hispanic voters
(Trump's well-earned current number) is sort of beside the point. The point
is that Trump clearly feels he can afford to flip off the Hispanic community
and win with a whites-only strategy. And his supporters are loving the idea
that he's trying.
The decision by huge masses of Republican voters to defy D.C.-thinkfluencer
types like George Will and throw in with a carnival act like Trump is no
small thing. For the first time in a generation, Republican voters are
taking their destiny into their own hands.
In the elaborate con that is American electoral politics, the Republican
voter has long been the easiest mark in the game, the biggest dope in the
room. Everyone inside the Beltway knows this. The Republican voters
themselves are the only ones who never saw it.
Elections are about a lot of things, but at the highest level, they're about
money. The people who sponsor election campaigns, who pay the hundreds of
millions of dollars to fund the candidates' charter jets and TV ads and
25-piece marching bands, those people have concrete needs.
They want tax breaks, federal contracts, regulatory relief, cheap financing,
free security for shipping lanes, antitrust waivers and dozens of other
things.
They mostly don't care about abortion or gay marriage or school vouchers or
any of the social issues the rest of us spend our time arguing about. It's
about money for them, and as far as that goes, the CEO class has had a
brilliantly winning electoral strategy for a generation.
They donate heavily to both parties, essentially hiring two different sets
of politicians to market their needs to the population. The Republicans give
them everything that they want, while the Democrats only give them mostly
everything.
They get everything from the Republicans because you don't have to make a
single concession to a Republican voter.
All you have to do to secure a Republican vote is show lots of pictures of
gay people kissing or black kids with their pants pulled down or Mexican
babies at an emergency room. Then you push forward some dingbat like Michele
Bachmann or Sarah Palin to reassure everyone that the Republican Party knows
who the real Americans are. Call it the "Rove 1-2."
That's literally all it's taken to secure decades of Republican votes, a few
patriotic words and a little over-the-pants rubbing. Policywise, a typical
Republican voter never even asks a politician to go to second base.
While we always got free trade agreements and wars and bailouts and mass
deregulation of industry and lots of other stuff the donors definitely
wanted, we didn't get Roe v. Wade overturned or prayer in schools or
balanced budgets or censorship of movies and video games or any of a dozen
other things Republican voters said they wanted.
While it's certainly been fun laughing about the lunacies of people like
Bachmann and John Ashcroft and Ted Cruz, who see the face of Jesus in every
tree stump and believe the globalist left is planning to abolish golf
courses and force country-dwellers to live in city apartments lit by
energy-efficient light bulbs, the truth is that the voters they represented
have been irrelevant for decades.
At least on the Democratic side there was that 5-10 percent of industry
policy demands that voters occasionally rejected, putting a tiny dent in
what otherwise has been a pretty smoothly running oligarchy.
Now that's over. Trump has pulled all of those previously irrelevant voters
completely out of pocket. In a development that has to horrify the donors
who run the GOP, the candidate Trump espouses some truly populist policy
beliefs, including stern warnings about the dire consequences companies will
face under a Trump presidency if they ship American jobs to Mexico and
China.
All that energy the party devoted for decades telling middle American voters
that protectionism was invented by Satan and Karl Marx during a poker game
in Brussels in the mid-1840s, that just disappeared in a puff of smoke.
And all that money the Republican kingmakers funneled into Fox and Clear
Channel over the years, making sure that their voters stayed focused on
ACORN and immigrant-transmitted measles and the New Black Panthers (has
anyone ever actually seen a New Black Panther? Ever?) instead of, say, the
complete disappearance of the manufacturing sector or the mass theft of
their retirement income, all of that's now backing up on them.
The party worked the cattle in their pen into such a dither that now they
won't rest until they get the giant wall that real-life, as-seen-on-TV
billionaire Donald Trump promises will save them from all those
measles-infected rapists pouring over the border.
Not far under the surface of Trump's candidacy lurks a powerful current of
Internet conspiracy theory that's a good two or three degrees loonier than
even the most far-out Tea Party paranoia. Gone are the salad days when
red-staters merely worried about Barack Obama inviting UN tanks to mass on
the borders of Lubbock.
Trump supporters have gone next-level, obsessed with gooney-bird fantasies
about "white genocide," a global plan to exterminate white people by sending
waves of third-world immigrants across American and European borders to
settle and intermarry.
The white-power nerds pushing this stuff don't like the term RINO
(Republican In Name Only) and prefer "cuckservative," a term that's a mix of
"cuckold" and "conservative." Cuck is also a porn term that refers to a
white guy who gets off on watching his wife take it from (usually) a black
man. A cuck is therefore a kind of desexualized race traitor.
So you can see why the Internet lights up when Donald Trump tosses Jorge
Ramos from a presser and tells him "mine's bigger than yours" (Trump was
referring to his heart, but again, whatever). All of Trump's constant
bragging about his money and his poll numbers and his virility speak
directly to this surprisingly vibrant middle American fantasy about a
castrated white America struggling to re-grow its mojo.
Republicans won middle American votes for years by taking advantage of the
fact that their voters didn't know the difference between an elitist and the
actual elite, between a snob and an oligarch. They made sure their voters'
idea of an elitist was Sean Penn hanging out with Hugo Chavez, instead of a
Wall Street bank financing the construction of Chinese factories.
Trump similarly is scoring points with voters who don't know the difference
between feeling sorry for themselves and actually being victims. We live in
a society that is changing for a lot of reasons, and some of those changes
feel annoying to certain kinds of people, particularly older white folks who
don't like language-policing and other aspects of political correctness.
But as basketball star turned pundit Kareem Abdul-Jabbar pointed out earlier
this week, PC isn't a new thing, or even a thing at all. It's just an
"emotional challenge every generation has had to go through." We get older,
our kids correct our bad habits, it happens.
Not to Trump's supporters. They've turned some minor cultural changes into a
vast conspiracy of white victimhood. They're eating up Trump's "Make America
Great Again" theme (which one supporter hilariously explained must be his
true goal, because "it's on his hat"), because it's a fantasy tale of a
once-great culture ruined by an invasion of mongrel criminals.
For reasons that are, again, obvious to everyone but Republican voters, this
"woe is us" narrative is never to fly with the rest of the country,
including especially (one imagines) the nonwhite population. Few sane people
are going to waste a vote on a sob story about how rough things have gotten
for white people. But Trump supporters are clinging to this fantasy far more
fiercely than red-state voters were ever clinging to guns or religion.
That leaves us facing a future in which national elections will no longer be
decided by ideas, but by numbers. It will be a turnout battle between people
who believe in a multicultural vision for the country, and those who don't.
Every other issue, from taxes to surveillance to war to jobs to education,
will take a distant back seat to this ongoing, moronic referendum on white
victimhood. And there's nothing any of us can do about it except wait it
out, and wonder if our politics only gets dumber from here.
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