Trump's Scare Tactics Aren't Working on Women in the Suburbs

[RandySF]

The suburbs, like this one, just up Interstate 77 from the official site of the start of this week’s Republican National Convention, make up the terrain on which the coming election almost certainly will be decided. The suburbs almost always are a political battlefield, or at least have been for the past generation or more. And if Trump can’t win or even loses a sufficient slice of his support in Cornelius, one of the whitest and most reliably Republican of the key suburbs in this critical swing state, he probably can’t win North Carolina, according to pollsters and strategists. And if he can’t win North Carolina, they say, he probably can’t win reelection. Hence the message he’s been delivering with increasing frequency and ferocity of late, appealing to the “Suburban Housewives of America,” charging that Joe Biden wants to “destroy your neighborhood and your American Dream,” and stressing that residents of American suburbia want “security” and not “low-income housing” forced “down their throats.”

“Why,” he asked in a tweet over the weekend, “would Suburban Women vote for Biden and the Democrats when Democrat run cities are now rampant with crime … which could easily spread to the suburbs?”

It was a prominent and recurring theme on the opening night of the mostly virtual RNC. “They want,” said Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the couple from St. Louis who pointed guns at Black Lives Matter protesters marching past their house earlier this summer, referring to Democrats and echoing language used repeatedly by Trump himself, “to abolish the suburbs.”

The response I got from actual suburban women here on Monday, though, was a mixture of eye-rolls, laughter and confusion. “It’s not something I’m afraid of,” said Connie Searle, 61, retired from a human resources job at a bank.



https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/08/25/trump-republican-convention-suburban-women-401449

[dawg day]

1. The 50s are calling-- they want their racism back...

These people think suburbs are all white, all rich, and all full of single-family homes.

Nope. Suburbs are becoming mini-cities. Many are getting diverse. I'm most familiar with Chicago suburbs, which-- typical of Chicago- are weirdly part-segregated, usually majority white but with a big minority of non-whites (only Pakistani in one suburb, Chinese in another). And there are several suburbs which are mostly Black.

If we learned anything from 2018, it's that suburban women are moving left left left.

[murielm99]

2. I wish we were having the same demographic shifts

out in rural Illinois. I am sick and tired of being "represented" by right-wing repubbies.

[Cha]

3. I like the way you framed that, dawg da.. TY!

[Cha]

4. Thank Goodness no one is buying the SHIT that

trump is trying to push down their throats!

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. This sums it up:

“I want affordable housing. Because guess who lives in affordable housing? Teachers. Police officers,” Marcus said. “So when Trump says, ‘I’m going to stop that program, so you don’t have to worry, suburban housewives,’ it’s like: Are you talking to me?”

Trump is relying on dog-whistles; and that will attract the racists - but he probably already had those, and it's just a "get out the vote" push. But the disguised language turns off the non-racists, because they recognise that people in general need the things Democrats propose, thanks to the Republicans shovelling money at the rich. And, thankfully, there are more non-racists than racists in America.

[JI7]

6. Don't many people live in the suburbs these days because they can't afford to live

closer to the city where they can have restaurants, shopping and other things within walking distance ?