{"id":46012,"date":"2016-03-13T18:53:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-13T18:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46012"},"modified":"2016-03-13T18:57:38","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T18:57:38","slug":"how-trump-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=46012","title":{"rendered":"How Trump Happened"},"content":{"rendered":"

How Trump Happened<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Slate<\/a>
\n2016-03-13<\/p>\n

Jamelle Bouie<\/a><\/strong>, Chief Political Correspondent<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not just anger over jobs and immigration. White voters hope Trump<\/a> will restore the racial hierarchy upended by Barack Obama<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cFirst they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win,\u201d goes the line attributed to Mahatma Gandhi<\/a>. Typically, you\u2019ll find this pearl adorning a classroom or splashed across a motivational poster. But last month, on the eve of Super Tuesday<\/a>\u2014when a dozen states cast ballots for the Republican presidential nomination\u2014you could find it on Donald Trump\u2019s<\/a> Instagram page<\/a>, the caption to a photograph of a massive rally in Alabama<\/a> the day before.<\/p>\n

Perverse as it may seem for the belligerent real estate magnate to channel even apocryphal Gandhi wisdom, the line is apt. First, we did ignore him\u2014as a buffoon who wouldn\u2019t survive past the summer. Then, we laughed at him\u2014as a buffoon who wouldn\u2019t survive through fall. Eventually, Republicans began to fight him, terrified of his traction with voters. Now, he\u2019s winning, with more votes and delegates than anyone left in the field. On the eve of another critical Tuesday slate of votes, Trump is on the verge of an even greater victory. Polls show him in command both in the smaller states that will award their delegates proportionally, and in the larger, winner-take-all prizes of Ohio<\/a> and Florida<\/a>. By Wednesday morning, Trump could be a stone\u2019s throw from the Republican presidential nomination…<\/p>\n

….Race plays a part in each of these analyses, but its role has not yet been central enough to our understanding of Trump\u2019s rise. Not only does he lead a movement of almost exclusively disaffected whites, but he wins his strongest support in states and counties with the greatest amounts of racial polarization. Among white voters, higher levels of racial resentment have been shown to be associated with<\/a> greater support for Trump.<\/p>\n

All of which is to say that we\u2019ve been missing the most important catalyst in Trump\u2019s rise. What caused this fire to burn out of control? The answer, I think, is Barack Obama<\/a>…<\/p>\n

…\u201cThe election of the country\u2019s first black president had the ironic upshot of opening the door for old-fashioned racism to influence partisan preferences after it was long thought to be a spent force in American politics,\u201d wrote Brown University political scientist Michael Tesler<\/a> in a 2013 paper titled \u201cThe Return of Old Fashioned Racism to White Americans\u2019 Partisan Preferences in the Early Obama Era.<\/a>\u201d For Tesler, \u201cold-fashioned racism\u201d isn\u2019t a rhetorical term; it refers to specific beliefs about the biological and cultural inferiority of black Americans. His work suggests that there are some white Americans who, in his words, have \u201cconcerns about the leadership of a president from a racial group whom they consider to be intellectually and socially inferior.\u201d…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How Trump Happened Slate 2016-03-13 Jamelle Bouie, Chief Political Correspondent It\u2019s not just anger over jobs and immigration. White voters hope Trump will restore the racial hierarchy upended by Barack Obama. \u201cFirst they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win,\u201d goes the line attributed to Mahatma Gandhi. Typically, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,63,8,26,20],"tags":[21057,9476,7435],"class_list":["post-46012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-donald-trump","tag-jamelle-bouie","tag-slate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46012"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46015,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46012\/revisions\/46015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}