Compared to 2020, Trump’s coalition was “older, wealthier, and about equally white.”
And yet, conventional wisdom is quickly coalescing around ideas of a working-class revolution, racial realignment, and young men’s “crisis of masculinity.”
The punditry doesn’t care about what really happened.
And yet, conventional wisdom is quickly coalescing around ideas of a working-class revolution, racial realignment, and young men’s “crisis of masculinity.”
The punditry doesn’t care about what really happened.
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Philip Bump
For all of the assessments of Trump's coalition based on exit polls, here's what they also say: his voting base was older, wealthier and about equally White to what it was in 2020. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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If these utter doofuses were *trying* to get fired I don't think they could craft a take/article stupid enough to do it. Even Bari Weiss couldn't and she prob *did* try.
That doesn't happen the shift to Trump is meaningless.
-Why are Democrats never described as a "multi-racial cross-class coalition?"
-What data I have seen--& I haven't dug deep yet--haven't shown what they're talking about . .1/
-Main effect of whiteness, which is prob not encompassed by whiteness X class interaction, but could be
-Main effect of incumbency (given global data)
-Interaction effect of class X gender NOT class X race, 2/
"Wealthy white racists" (aka traditional Republicans) is so boring.
@driftglass.bsky.social & #ProLeftPodcast have been breaking this down for twenty years.
#BurnTheLifeboats
I'm not even saying it's wrong, I'm just wondering if that common professional context is informing it.