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with dates from the 80's through 2014.
Miriam
Abu-Jamal says: "The thousands and perhaps millions who rage at Latino
immigrants also worship the rich. In Donald Trump, they have found their
voice, and he has found the energies of resentment. An undeniable fuel for
failure."
Mumia Abu-Jamal. (photo: Lou Jones/First Run Features)
Trump and the Politics of Resentment
By Mumia Abu-Jamal, Prison Radio
04 August 15
Trump & The Politics of Resentment :
When New York billionaire and GOP presidential candidate, Donald Trump,
launched into his anti-immigrant tirade against Mexicans crossing the
border, he was using a long-term political technique of plugging into the
live wire of American resentment for the "other".
Today it's Latinos, of course, more precisely, those from the southern
borders: Mexicans, Salvadorians, Guatemalans, Hondurans, and the like. But
since the 19th century, politicians have used these currents of fear to fuel
movements against those who came from abroad. In those days though, the
targets of nativist ire, were those from Ireland, Jews from Russia, people
from Italy and other Europeans sights.
These forces gave birth to the American Party, a fierce anti-immigrant group
that became known popularly as the "Know Nothings". They formed a
third-party during the 1850s and ran former US President Millard Fillmore as
their unsuccessful candidate.
US historian Richard Hofstadter, in his classic work, "The Paranoid Style in
American Politics", argued that much of the energy of the anti-immigrant
forces stem from what might be called "status anxiety", or the intense
insecurities of people unsure of their place in US society, but who could
point to others, immigrants, who hold weaker positions in society.
Furthermore, these same anxiety-ridden groups often have mixed feelings of
fear and admiration for social elites. And who is more elite in America than
the super rich?
Witness the spectacle of Donald Trump, who without question is perhaps the
richest man to ever run for president, and as a billionaire populist no
less!
I wouldn't get too excited about his place in the polls right now. In 2012,
the toast of both press and polls was a pizza exec named Herman Cain. We
know how that worked out.
But most candidates, especially of the GOP, worship at the thrown of the
wealthy. For they are the ones they serve.
The thousands and perhaps millions who rage at Latino immigrants also
worship the rich. In Donald Trump, they have found their voice, and he has
found the energies of resentment. An undeniable fuel for failure.
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04 August 15
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hen New York billionaire and GOP presidential candidate, Donald Trump,
launched into his anti-immigrant tirade against Mexicans crossing the
border, he was using a long-term political technique of plugging into the
live wire of American resentment for the "other".
Today it's Latinos, of course, more precisely, those from the southern
borders: Mexicans, Salvadorians, Guatemalans, Hondurans, and the like. But
since the 19th century, politicians have used these currents of fear to fuel
movements against those who came from abroad. In those days though, the
targets of nativist ire, were those from Ireland, Jews from Russia, people
from Italy and other Europeans sights.
These forces gave birth to the American Party, a fierce anti-immigrant group
that became known popularly as the "Know Nothings". They formed a
third-party during the 1850s and ran former US President Millard Fillmore as
their unsuccessful candidate.
US historian Richard Hofstadter, in his classic work, "The Paranoid Style in
American Politics", argued that much of the energy of the anti-immigrant
forces stem from what might be called "status anxiety", or the intense
insecurities of people unsure of their place in US society, but who could
point to others, immigrants, who hold weaker positions in society.
Furthermore, these same anxiety-ridden groups often have mixed feelings of
fear and admiration for social elites. And who is more elite in America than
the super rich?
Witness the spectacle of Donald Trump, who without question is perhaps the
richest man to ever run for president, and as a billionaire populist no
less!
I wouldn't get too excited about his place in the polls right now. In 2012,
the toast of both press and polls was a pizza exec named Herman Cain. We
know how that worked out.
But most candidates, especially of the GOP, worship at the thrown of the
wealthy. For they are the ones they serve.
The thousands and perhaps millions who rage at Latino immigrants also
worship the rich. In Donald Trump, they have found their voice, and he has
found the energies of resentment. An undeniable fuel for failure.
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