by Robert Reich:Who are the Trump supporters?

[elleng]

They aren’t all (or even mostly all) bigots or racists. They’re not fascists. They’re not brainless dupes of a demagogue.

George Saunders of the New Yorker does a good job (below) clarifying that most Trump supporters share what he calls a “usurpation anxiety syndrome” — a feeling that one is, or is about to be, scooped, overrun, or taken advantage of. Trump supporters feel America has been taken away from them by Obama, the Clintons, the “lamestream” media, the “élites,” the business-as-usual politicians. They have a case of Grievance Mind -- and Trump is their head kvetcher. They’re less influenced by Goldwater and Reagan than by Fox News and reality TV.

Intellectually and emotionally weakened by years of steadily degraded public discourse, Americans are now two separate ideological countries, speaking different languages, the lines between us down.'

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WHO ARE ALL THESE TRUMP SUPPORTERS?

At the candidate’s rallies, a new understanding of America emerges.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/11/george-saunders-goes-to-trump-rallies?mbid=social_facebook

[underpants]

1. They have been conditioned into victimization

Everything (they never really had) has been taken say from them and the core of our society (which they bought into) is being attacked on all sides.

[pampango]

2. "feel America has been taken away from them by Obama, the Clintons, the “lamestream” media,

the “élites,” the business-as-usual politicians."

Good insight from Reich as usual.

[uponit7771]

10. He leaves out "... and brown people..." from his analysis which isn't telling the truth at all

... folk like Reich need to stop ignoring the stoking of tribalism to get these folk votes. From the Southern Strategy to out and out white supremacist in Donald Dump (how many strormfront tweets is he going to retweet?!!?) the ones who are voting tRump this year want their social positions back, the rest is noise.

[Cali_Democrat]

3. Who are Trump supporters? They're fucking idiots. nt

[Johnny2X2X]

4. It's sad

Very sad for the country. I know some of these people and it's harder and harder to reach them and they're so angry that you can't find common ground on any issue no matter how much you might agree with each other.

I don't know how to reach the Right anymore. Facts have no effect.

[JaneyVee]

5. Morons.

[Lord Magus]

6. I disagree, Trump supporters ARE mostly bigots and racists.

They think America has been "usurped" from them by black and brown people. They want to go back to the days when black people "knew their place" and white men ran everything.

[RBInMaine]

8. Exactly.

[RBInMaine]

7. If they feel "Obama has taken America away from them" THAT is RACISM.

[uponit7771]

9. Reich for taken away by " ... those brown people..." really hard to overcome tribalism

[Hortensis]

11. They are energized voters who will be voting

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Republican, in spite of all the betrayals by that party, because Trump enables them to rebel angrily while still remaining in the fold and voting the right side of the ballot.

They have the entire rest of the ballot in common with all the normally conformable conservatives who reject Trump but can't vote Democrat. Tap, tap, tap, punch, punch, punch, punch.

This election is once again continuing the decades-long migration of some moderate economic/usually somewhat socially liberal conservatives to the Democratic Party. Our other best chance from the right, though, lies in the conformables becoming so disillusioned with and estranged from what the party has become that a fair number of them just stay home on election day.