This research finds that, contrary to what you’d expect, the "losers of globalization" aren’t the ones voting for these parties. Hardcore supporters of Trump and his global peers are not the people profiled endlessly in the Rust Belt, who lament the loss of factory jobs. What unites far-right politicians and their supporters, on both sides of the Atlantic, is a set of regressive attitudes toward difference. Racism, Islamophobia, and xenophobia — and not economic anxiety — are their calling cards.
goobster - this article makes a compelling case that you are right and I am wrong.
But not that wrong.
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oyster: I don't know, isn't it possible that it's both ? It seems like Trump voters have this victimhood mentality and they blame the left/immigration. Maybe I'm giving people too much credit but I feel like their has to be some sort of catalyst to cause that kind of racism even if that catalyst is a mostly a made up reason to feel like a victim.