2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumHostility toward women predicts Trump support.
Yup. Misogyny is behind a great deal of his support.
http://www.vox.com/2016/11/1/13480416/trump-supporters-sexism
Since the start of the Republican primaries, hundreds of thousands of words and hours of television airtime have been devoted to one question: What do Donald Trumps supporters want? The 42 percent of Americans supporting Trump have been studied and caricatured and psychoanalyzed.
Explanations abound: Theyre stricken with economic anxiety. Theyre anxious about their social status. They feel left behind by the federal government. Theyre authoritarians who want a forceful leader. Theyre racists who oppose the changing demographics and norms of the US.
But theres another important factor that these analyses have largely left out: sexism. Three political scientists who studied the connection between sexism, emotions, and support for Trump found that the more hostile voters were toward women, the more likely they were to support Trump.
Researchers Carly Wayne, Nicholas Valentino and Marzia Oceno, who wrote about their work for the Washington Posts Monkey Cage, conducted their research before the revelation of the secret recording that captured Trump bragging about kissing and groping women without their permission, and before more than a dozen women came forward to accuse Trump of sexual assault in the aftermath of its release.
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Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Tom Rivers
(459 posts)the elderly, professors, education in general.
basically anyone except white male republican christians.
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)So fucking predictable. I could set my watch to it.
True_Blue
(3,063 posts)Losers that blame women and minorities for their problems and whine how they're discriminated against because they're white males.
KitSileya
(4,035 posts)Those of us in HoF and the Hillary Clinton group can provide ample testimony that this is true not only on the Republican side, but also on our side. The long-time raging misogynists on DU are mostly pinebaggers now. And I am counting both men and women among that number, for we had a number of "exceptional" women among the garden-variety misogynistic men too. Many of them are racists too, and hated everything President Obama did, but a number of them supported Obama, but hate Clinton. They purport to continue Senator Sanders' revolution...by supporting Trump.
Tom Rivers
(459 posts)it's like the hillary people in '08 who started the PUMA movement, only this is an even starker contrast between hillary and trump than obama and mccain.
i love bernie and agree with him on many issues, but i cannot see how anyone who claims to love and support him wants a man like trump whose most ardent supporters post anti-semitic memes and white nationalist rhetoric. it is some truly sick stuff that far transcends where we might happen to fall on the ideological spectrum.
KitSileya
(4,035 posts)They claim that Senator Sanders was beaten to get him to endorse Clinton, and that Clinton is a worse threat than Trump. Pretty much all posters on JPR are former or in some cases current members of DU, and they persecuted Clinton supporters on DU to such an extent that they even bamboozled Skinner into thinking that good Clinton supporters were worse than them, which is why so many of us are FFR'd indefinitely.
Be careful that you don't fall for the One True Scotsman fallacy. There are a number of ardent Senator Sanders' supporters who do not support Clinton, and who do indeed support Trump. That doesn't necessarily make them any less Sanders' supporters, even if you claim so. Hatred of Clinton is virulent, and that hatred has been nurtured by her opponents for a long time. It didn't start with Trump.
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)bluestateguy
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