Stop associating Trump with the working class. MAGA is a petite bourgeois movement. Workers don’t go for Trump because they’re racists, they go for Trump because their boss likes Trump and they’re a little politically backward, and that’s for a whole host of cultural and institutional reasons.
One thing that is interesting to me is how small business owners or like mid-upper management types will take on all these worker affectations like trucks, country music, cowboy hats, etc. but don’t get it twisted, one exploits and the other is exploited, and the worker who needs their boss to survive, aspires to be like him. And their boss has huge trump flags everywhere, signs in their yard, and he seems like someone just like me!
A good many of the “H1-Bs” from India are Modi supporters and by extension also supported Trump.
That’s the crux of it. The writer (and her family) are clearly upper-caste racists themselves - they just don’t recognize their beliefs are racist.
That’s a thing I’ve noticed. Sometimes progressives try too hard while conservatives treat you like everyone else. I’ve seen people of all types think that means conservatives are fine and not bigoted. Like no, most of them aren’t going on bigoted rants to the face of the affected, but that doesn’t mean the rants don’t happen.
They had money to be able to live as the middle class, and thought that brought them acceptance. They didn’t realize they were lulled into voting R only to be discarded after the vote.
My grandfather voted for Trump three times. Now, part of that movement is calling immigrants like him ‘filthy
NOW?
This author keeps writing how well they know the world, how they debate politics, yet never ever noticed that magas as a bunch of racist assholes?
This author is an idiot and a liar
Typical conservative, ignores all the warnings and evidence until it negatively affects them. Also I bet her Trump voting grandpa believes in the caste system like almost every conservative Indian in the West. The racism is only bad when it targets them.
Liberals warned me about not breathing air. I didn’t believe them- until now.
“I thought being a collaborator would foster upon me special class that would protect me and make me honorary white. That was proven wrong, and now I’m upset I’m being treated like everyone else”
This source is terrible.
Leopards are already stuffed, but the grub is so tasty they’ll have just one more bite!
“It’s just a narcissist, sir. It’s narcissist-thin.”
A friend of mine was raised Republican; he’d say, fiscal Republican. He was certain that people without healthcare could just get treated for free for whatever they needed and that POC brought it all on themselves. Generally, he thought that people were nice and good and would take care of each other as long as the people in need weren’t miscreants.
Then he met a nice black girl, got married, and had some kids.
Now he’s seeing how they’re treated differently when they’re not together, and how he’s treated differently when he’s with her.
How family is now all at odds as the grandparents are still in the old camp and aren’t sympathetic to his findings and struggles.
The propaganda is hard to work around. They want to believe that there’s good and evil in the world and good prevails. It’s what their churches tell them. It’s not until each one of them individually experiences hardship that they realize that something is off, and they still remain confused as to what’s real and what’s now.
Classic conservative. Doesn’t care until it affects them.
they want to believe their evil is good.
and that good in the world is actually evil.
I’ve got an old high school friend whose family migrated from Taiwan when she was a kid. She was dyed-in-the-wool “China Bad / Communism Bad” and quickly adopted the Texas brand of anti-Communist Republicanism. She got a law degree, joined the Federalist Society, started a practice in the Houston suburbs, and even made inroads within the local Republican Party as a team player.
Then she tried to run for an open judicial seat in her neighborhood, during the Republican Primary. Instantly bombarded with crazy racist attacks. Tarred as a Chinese Communist. Smeared as a Manchurian Candidate. Received a ton of hate mail. Got blasted on in the local radio. Came in a distant third place with pretty much only her local friends and neighbors supporting her, in a crazy low-turnout election.
Democrats came and courted her as a possible candidate on their side, because the Democrats in Fort Bend are far more plural with a big East Asian demographic (but just as “business-friendly” neoliberal). She outright rejected the offer and doubled down with the GOP. Now she’s hosting dinner parties with Dinesh D’Souz and Charlie Kirk to fund-raise for the same Trump candidates in her neighborhood that smeared her. She’s convinced her turn will come. People in the party keep insisting (quietly and in back rooms) that they do actually support her and a seat will open up for her eventually.
Absolutely fucking crazy. I don’t understand it at all.
How do you tell someone the country they’ve loved for 50 years is harboring a growing faction that wishes he’d never come?
“The guy you voted for doesn’t like you because of where you came from”
People who think politics is some kind of sports fandom are dumb and annoying.
Feeding time for the leopards.
This gif is gonna get some serious mileage over the next 4 years
The proof is in the pudding.
“Oh boy, I get to oversee this evil asshole’s certification as president!”
