Chris Broome: Trump doesn’t get into office if we’re worried about who’d manage a recession, or if there’s the threat of war.

Everyone is always afraid to say why people like Trump or Marie Le Pen have some level of popularity and it’s just that there’s a lot of people in the world who believe in racism. You end up with these goofy ass explanations for Trump where it’s NAFTA or shit and it’s like no you know what it is

“Oh Trump is a conman, he’s pulling the wool over peoples eyes” Yeah to some degree, but the main core reason he was President and might well be President again is a lot of people fucking love being racist

And it fucking sucks because I’d love to believe in the idea that if everyone voted and had their say we’d have good enlightened leaders and I don’t know. I don’t know looking at the history of our country why that would necessarily be the case.

“People feel left behind!” Yes absolutely! We should have universal income or strengthen unions or have free college or increase the minimum wage or do a bunch of domestic projects “Actually instead of that let me show you this security camera footage of a migrant chasing a blonde woman”

I have the opposite read: Trump, Le Pen, et al. happen when times are relatively good. When people are well off. When many don’t care about a functional government because they got theirs. Sprinkle in a threat of the status quo flipping and they’ll go fash

Trump doesn’t get into office if we’re worried about who’d manage a recession, or if there’s the threat of war.

What I can tell from this post here is that you are one of the people who is well off at the moment.

There is objectively a great, great many people who are well-off in America. I don't know when or why this became a forbidden truth among leftists, and nobody has to believe it if they don't want to, but it's very obviously true.

True. According to the polling most people feel they’re well off in America right now.

what polling? newspaper subscribers on landlines?

Are there any other kind? Regardless “72% of Americans say they personally are at least “doing ok” financially. 22% think the national economy is doing well.”

www.federalreserve.gov

I could get ask the guy who I gave three dollars and a mcmuffin this morning, but I’m not sure where he’s sleeping.

What is the truth there that gets covered up? We already know that most of Trump's biggest fans were NOT poor working-class voters, but were at least somewhat well-off themselves. The Left isn't the one running endless Cletus Safaris as "news" articles.

Leftists aren’t the ones trying to sell the fantasy that the Republicans represent the less affluent

300 million people is a lot of people, and depending on how we define it, 3-30 million people is a lot of well off people. especially if those are the near totality of people in media

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