Quote:I don't see it in Donald to do it, and the responses in this thread indicate that point.


Van Jones said something out loud that I was thinking. This was a punishment for America electing a Black president. The people who did not want a progressive society voted for Trump. The people who give him a pass on his rape allegations, class action lawsuits regarding race discrimination, etc are essentially saying they want America to be what it was before diversity took shape.

 

I think there's some of that involved.   There is a class of white people who feel left behind economically, and see the country becoming more diverse and progressive, and they feel kind of panicked about it.   They want things to go back to the way they were 40 or 50 years ago.  First they lost their factory jobs, then they saw Mexicans coming in competing for the same leftover jobs, then they see gay rights advancing, and women's rights advancing, then they see a black President, and it seems like their world is collapsing, and things are changing too fast and they can't keep up.   Just look at the electoral map, with Clinton taking the cities and Trump taking the countryside, the farms and small towns. 

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