NYT tells 2020 Dems to avoid scaring white people -- at all costs
Published 8 hours ago
on September 3, 2019
By Salon
Thomas Edsall’s demographic analysis is almost always misleading (FAIR.org, 2/10/15, 10/9/15, 6/5/16, 3/30/18, 7/24/19) — and his latest column for the New York Times is no exception.
“We Aren’t Seeing White Support for Trump for What It Is,” the headline complains — with the subhead explaining, “A crucial part of his coalition is made up of better-off white people who did not graduate from college.”
Why does this matter? Edsall’s column is largely a write-up of a paper by two political scientists, Herbert Kitschelt and Philipp Rehm, who note that better-off whites without college degrees “tend to endorse authoritarian noneconomic policies and tend to oppose progressive economic policies,” and are therefore “a constituency that is now decisively committed to the Republican Party.” (By “authoritarian policies,” the researchers are mainly talking about racism and xenophobia.) Low-income, low-education whites, by contrast, “tend to support progressive economic policies and tend to endorse authoritarian policies on the noneconomic dimension,” and are therefore “conflicted in their partisan allegiance.”
What’s at stake in presenting one of these constituencies as “crucial” is how you approach the task of defeating Trump: If he’s turning out his key supporters through race-baiting and immigrant-bashing, the argument goes, then Democrats need to take care not to be too outspoken on issues of race and immigration. And so Edsall confidently concludes:
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/09/nyt-tells-2020-dems-to-avoid-scaring-white-people-at-all-costs/
I was listening to Signal Boost on Sirus XM on this subject today......................as for this Edsall character...............our party is inclusive.........................your op-ed................and it's subject matter is disingenuous.......................
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