"Draining The Swamp" The P*ssy Grabber's First 100 Days MAGA Thread!

[donquixote99]

Great Charles Blow column. After I read it, I read another of his columns, entitled Trump’s Rural White America. He quotes a Gallup 'working paper,' and gives a link.

I downloaded the paper. Seems they have detailed data of 125,000 people, and they've been analyzing to see what correlates with Trump support. Here's the last paragraph of their conclusion:

Finally, the results concerning race, age, gender, ethnicity,and religion imply that political behavior is not related directly and neatly to economic self-interest or class position. One could argue that blue collar men would disproportionately benefit from Trump’s policies on trade and immigration, but as discussed above, these factors are relatively unimportant. As others have found, cultural views and social identity are likely quite important in affecting political preference.

Boiled down a little, they are saying it's not the economy, stupid. It's cultural views and social identity. I take this to mean, pretty much, the 'cultural view' that their 'social identity' is threatened by immigration and demographic change.

Race comes into it! As of course was bloody obvious to begin with, as one looks at the racial correlation of support and opposition to Trump.