The quiet racism behind the white female Trump voter

GURPS

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The quiet racism behind the white female Trump voter


Most of the polls turned out to be wrong. Voters did not punish Donald Trump for breaking with 40 years of precedent and refusing to release his tax returns. Michigan and Wisconsin, two traditionally Democratic states that make up part of the Rust Belt’s “blue wall,” went to the president-elect despite his campaign spending virtually no time or money there. A complete lack of experience, an endorsement from the Ku Klux Klan, and the active cultivation of a white nationalist, conspiracy-minded base did not slow him down.
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But a majority of white women voters have been playing one card for 60 years. And while Trump the pussy-grabber may not seem like the kind of candidate who tried to appeal to women on any front, his language and emotional appeals followed a familiar narrative around the fragility and purity of white womanhood that is central to white supremacy.

It was reflected in the more openly racist statements I heard from women on the campaign trail, as well as subtler comments from the white women voters who didn’t turn out to Trump rallies but backed him all the same.

These women are the quiet Trump voters, or, as Buzzfeed’s Anne Helen Petersen termed it, “the Ivanka Voters.” They’re women who think Trump’s comments about immigrants, Muslim people, and black Americans are rude, perhaps, but not disqualifying.

As one woman put it to me in Iowa, a variation on something I heard often enough: Sometimes you’re not voting for someone, you’re voting against someone else.
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Um Wow ok .....

H/T Andrew Klavin posted this to Facebook as the dumbest thing on the internet today
 
littlelady

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GURPS said:
Um Wow ok .....

H/T Andrew Klavin posted this to Facebook as the dumbest thing on the internet today
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Yes, wow. The idiocy will get worse. The leapfrogs are losing their minds. Just to be clear, I use/have used the word leapfrogs in lieu of libprogs because that is/was what they were trying to do. Leaping over a democratic republic to socialism/communism. Americans knew/know that is/was what was happening. Thus, we have Trump. Thank goodness there was a silent majority that I prayed was there. God bless, America.
 
littlelady

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Also, I am a white female that just moved from Calvert in SoMD to Montgomery. Trump signs were everywhere in Calvert. I have seen one Trump sign in my new neighborhood in Montgomery. I think I will stop there my next trip out to shake the hand of whoever lives there. They still have their sign up, and are, obviously, very brave. I need to know them!
 
SamSpade

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littlelady said:
Also, I am a white female that just moved from Calvert in SoMD to Montgomery. Trump signs were everywhere in Calvert. I have seen one Trump sign in my new neighborhood in Montgomery. I think I will stop there my next trip out to shake the hand of whoever lives there. They still have their sign up, and are, obviously, very brave. I need to know them!
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Strangely enough, there is a Trump sign in the neighborhood my mom just moved out of in Montgomery.
 
Merlin99

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tommyjo said:
You think someone who puts a political sign in their yard is "obviously, very brave"??
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In the right (wrong) neighborhood, yes. A lot of these petulant leftist children are violently lashing out for even suspecting that someone has voted for Trump. What's more, you know this as well as anyone else and just used it as a springboard to launch more vitriol. You really need to get laid.
 
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vraiblonde

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Dear bitches,

How dare you disparage me and try to shame me because I didn't vote for the woman who stood by and not only said nothing while her husband sexually harassed and abused countless women, but actively threatened them into silence. Clearly you're not smart enough to understand how pathetic and weak and mindless that makes you look.
 
GregV814

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well, in fashionable Chevy Chase, (pronounced shevvy shaaaasee in democratic communities), the media found a haggard old liberal woman who stated she didn't want Pence as a neighbor. BUT, she said, she may invite him over for supper.
 
Hijinx

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GregV814 said:
well, in fashionable Chevy Chase, (pronounced shevvy shaaaasee in democratic communities), the media found a haggard old liberal woman who stated she didn't want Pence as a neighbor. BUT, she said, she may invite him over for supper.
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The Vice President will live in a house provided at the Naval Observatory in N.W.Dc.
 
SamSpade

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tommyjo said:
You think someone puts a political sign in their yard is "obviously, very brave"??
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This is what it's like to be conservative in a liberal neighborhood. Or in any environment where everyone around you is liberal.
I was in Northern Virginia yesterday, and a young girl was hesitant to mention who she supported (Trump) because she was surrounded by *tolerant* liberals.

I have acquaintances from work who after they learned I voted for Bush have refused to ever speak to me again in the 10+ years since.
I dare not bring up politics again in their presence, because work or not - they will shout me down.
 
Hijinx

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SamSpade said:
This is what it's like to be conservative in a liberal neighborhood. Or in any environment where everyone around you is liberal.
I was in Northern Virginia yesterday, and a young girl was hesitant to mention who she supported (Trump) because she was surrounded by *tolerant* liberals.

I have acquaintances from work who after they learned I voted for Bush have refused to ever speak to me again in the 10+ years since.
I dare not bring up politics again in their presence, because work or not - they will shout me down.
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My daughter and son in law work for the Government and dare not speak of who they voted for.
 
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