[Peace-discuss] The Peculiar Populism of Donald Trump

[Szoke, Ron]

This is the most plausible commentary on the 2016 national election I have seen.

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Date: February 2, 2017 at 12:14:42 PM CST
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Note the relative absence of the usual bluffing, faking & pontificating about “the real issue,” or what made any group of voters
vote the way they did.  Here, it was more cultural (“values”) than economic, but they were of course intertwined.

We saw another example of how the “little people,” looking for a national savior or political messiah, will turn to an authoritarian "strong man”
or caudillo instead of socialism.  I think an unspeakable issue underneath all the complaints about “political correctness” was resentment of all the fierce talk
about “white privilege,” while all they could perceive was “black privilege”: affirmative action, welfare entitlements, special exemptions, etc.
   ~~ Ron

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