Racism Is Why Trump Is So Popular
Racism Is Why Trump Is So Popular
Trump’s popularity with his base isn’t the result of economic anxiety, as many claimed in 2016. It’s about race and demographics.
TO UNDERSTAND THE rise of Donald Trump, you don’t need to go to a diner in the Midwest or read “Hillbilly Elegy,” J.D. Vance’s memoir.
You just need to know these basic facts:
In 1980, white people accounted for about 80 percent of the U.S. population.
In 2024, white people account for about 58 percent of the U.S. population.
Trump appeals to white people gripped by demographic hysteria. Especially older white people who grew up when white people represented a much larger share of the population. They fear becoming a minority.
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In 2024, white people account for about 58 percent of the U.S. population.
Especially now that you can "become black."
That said, I wonder if someone like Obama is counted in the "white people" part of that statistic. He should. He's as white as he is black, just like Kamala Harris is as Indian as she is black.
Especially now that you can "become black."
Well, if they're all so scared that white males are the most discriminated against, they should all become black women. Problem solved!
/S, of course.
Not a bad plan! Let's get them to work on it!
Anyway- I am definitely going to enjoy spending the next few months letting Republicans know that Obama is white based on Trump's own ideas of race.
I’d imagine he be classified as mixed race or something since he’s both not either?
It's only in the past few years that "two or more" races became an option on most demographic forms. Even into the early 2000s most demographic forms only let you pick one category so you had to make a choice. The 2024 number may more accurately account for mixed race people but there is no way that 80s number does at all.
Source: was a confused mixed child asking adults which I should pick on official forms and just got shoulder shrugs and hand waving from them.
Not one drop rule still applies to this day
The average Black American is ~1/3 white (because of all the rape of enslaved women, basically) so he's not that much off the average there.
I don't doubt it, but based on Trump's reasoning, Kamala Harris has an Indian mother, so she's Indian. Therefore Barack Obama has a white mother, so he's white.
Which is why I'm going to keep telling that to Republicans.