{"id":49893,"date":"2016-11-11T23:15:33","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T23:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=49893"},"modified":"2016-11-11T23:20:02","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T23:20:02","slug":"who-is-to-blame-for-donald-trumps-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=49893","title":{"rendered":"Who is to blame for Donald Trump’s victory?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Who is to blame for Donald Trump’s victory?<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

New Statesman<\/a>
\n2016-11-09<\/p>\n

Helen Lewis<\/strong><\/a>, Deputy Editor<\/p>\n

A narrative that attributes Trump’s<\/a> triumph to the “working class” forgets the role of racism, sexism and the right-wing media.<\/em><\/p>\n

As it became clear that Donald Trump<\/a> had won Pennsylvania<\/a>, putting the presidency in the grasp of those tiny hands, the activist and academic Van Jones<\/a> looked crushed. \u201cIt\u2019s hard to be a parent tonight for a lot of us,\u201d he told CNN viewers. \u201cYou tell your kids: \u2018Don\u2019t be a bully.\u2019 You tell your kids: \u2018Don\u2019t be a bigot.\u2019 You tell your kids: \u2018Do your homework and be prepared.\u2019 And then you have this outcome.\u201d<\/p>\n

There are many ways to read Trump\u2019s victory, but all of them should acknowledge just how improbable it would have seemed even a few years ago. The real-estate magnate has been both a registered Democrat and a Republican; he has married three times and had numerous girlfriends; he was initially progressive on subjects such as abortion. Hell, he might even believe in evolution. Normally these would have been seen as disqualifying characteristics for anyone seeking the Republican nomination…<\/p>\n

…In the coming days, mentally insert the word \u201cwhite\u201d into any commentary you hear about the \u201cworking class\u201d or the \u201cleft behind\u201d. African Americans, not a well-off sector of the population, voted overwhelmingly for Hillary Clinton<\/a>; she had a lead among Hispanic voters. The group that voted Trump is the same demographic that brought us Brexit: older, white, living outside the big cities, with not much, but something to lose. Many feel ill-equipped for the future: Trump scored a landslide among white voters without a degree.<\/p>\n

The racism was there from the start. Trump\u2019s candidacy was born through questioning the legitimacy<\/a> of the first mixed-race president. Some of his supporters post anti-Semitic abuse on Twitter and shout \u201cl\u00fcgenpresse<\/a>\u201d, a Nazi<\/a>-era term meaning \u201clying press\u201d, at journalists. The campaign turned a blind eye to this. At rallies, Trump always included his own version of a two-minute hate directed at the media, which were confined to a press pen. His final campaign video named prominent Jewish public figures \u2013 Janet Yellen<\/a> of the Fed<\/a>, Lloyd Blankfein<\/a> of Goldman Sachs<\/a> \u2013 alongside classic tropes of \u201cglobal special interests\u201d that \u201ccontrol the levers of power\u201d. Although many conservative local newspapers turned against him, Trump did secure one coveted endorsement: from the Crusader<\/em>, the official publication of the Ku Klux Klan<\/a>…<\/p>\n

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

Who is to blame for Donald Trump’s victory? New Statesman 2016-11-09 Helen Lewis, Deputy Editor A narrative that attributes Trump’s triumph to the “working class” forgets the role of racism, sexism and the right-wing media. As it became clear that Donald Trump had won Pennsylvania, putting the presidency in the grasp of those tiny hands, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,26,20],"tags":[21057,25404,25403],"class_list":["post-49893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-donald-trump","tag-helen-lewis","tag-new-statesman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49893","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=49893"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49897,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49893\/revisions\/49897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}