An interesting read on Hullabaloo today,
How Libertarians are a gateway drug
Add it to this read on Lawyers, Guns, and Money,
Very interesting indeed. To me it’s beyond doubt that Trumps main appeal from the beginning was racial animus. Everything else was just excuses. And it’s obvious to me that this animus is all he has left. This read by Charles Pierce sums it up, they are/were deplorable, and the excuses are no longer acceptable.
They love him because he hates the same people they hate.
And hate is all he ever had.
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I read the Vox interview with Schaffner earlier. It was an interesting read. One takeaway I got was that the subset of Sanders primary voters who switched to Trump were definitely atypical as far as Democratic voters go. They were folks who would not ordinarily be expected to vote Democratic. As noted in the LGM link above, these folks trended older and more racist, and additionally there is data that is suggestive that about half of them were Romney voters in 2012. I had wondered if data analyses would support my very limited observations that a fair number of the Sanders defectors (i.e., the folks who refused to vote for HRC) were racist or if the data would suggest that my observation had more to do with the quirky conditions of my red-state location. Looks like there was some substance to a hunch I had.