Like my mate said it could be an alls well that ends well scenario
Your argument is missing a step. Data like this is not worthless, but it is easy to spin and even easier to misread, since it involves judgement calls all the way (as you can see from the fact that the Guardian attribute it both to poor whites and to rich whites, whereas CNN attribute it to the minority vote). Just take it with a pinch of salt - which is exactly what most commenters in the media failed to do.
Fair enough, I was just trying to make Luka chuckle if I'm being honest. Nate Silver was making a very similar point to this in the last couple of days. 538 was a trump-favourable outlier as far as poll aggregators go.
That's the thing, say if Trump is merely a figurehead (or at least doesn't behave as his rhetoric would suggest he would), you still have the tragedy of the republican's when it comes to climate change, obama care, fiscal policy, iran, etc.
If people followed the alt-right groups on Reddit, they would know that young white Americans were told to hide their support of Trump....
Just because folks weren't yelling their support of Trump off the rooftops doesn't mean they didn't have it. They were told to hide it...
Very good, impassioned article. When was it published?
A lot of it comes down to whether Trump actually meant anything he said. He couldn’t have meant all of it; one half of it contradicted the other. Many perceive Trump as a racist misogynistic homophobic thin-skinned sociopathic crook with poor impulse control, but that interpretation assumes a certain level of honesty in the man’s statements (well, except for the crook part). I see something more consistent with operant conditioning: a Pavlovian Trump salivating after applause, randomly trying out various lines until the local audience starts cheering. He was, for example, pro-choice before he started courting the antichoicers—so while he may move to overturn Roe v. Wade he’d probably just do it for shits and giggles and not for ideological reasons. I don’t see much in the way of a coherent ideology at work; I don’t even see much of an agenda, beyond the base instinctive drive of Me Me Me.
Merkel has announced that “Germany and America are connected by common values,” which I guess is especially true if you factor in an eighty-year time lag.
i hope it works out but suspect there will be millions of disillusioned trump voters in a few years when few of his grandiose promises come to fruition. many voters were conned into thinking trump will return high-paying factory jobs to the rust belt, end opiate addiction, protect us from terrorism, etc., but none of that is realistically possible. THEN what do they do?