GOP Nominee 2020

[adaher]

I wouldn’t call him a liberal either, but he is a populist of the rather ugly variety. He’s actually more like Andrew Jackson.

[SlackerInc]

Apt comparison.

[BrainGlutton]

@adaher

It’s not about ideology though. If it was, Sanders would have won the non-white vote.

@BrainGlutton

The non-white vote has no common or consistent ideology. Just enough ideology, if that is the proper word for “rational self-interest,” to unite them against the Pubs.

@adaher

Their self interest is that they don’t like the Republicans.

No, their self-interest is that the Republicans don’t like them. And Trump is no maverick in that regard, to put it mildly, no matter how much he likes taco bowls (not a Mexican dish anyway, FTR).

[Gyrate]

@SlackerInc

It’s not just dogwhistles. Drumpf is a white nationalist, and the vast majority of his voters are white nationalists of the slightly stealthy variety (no swastikas on their forehead or that sort of thing). It’s a myth that his base is these poor, unemployed Rust Belt workers. The average household income for his primary season voters was $77,000. They are just white, racist, sexist, xenophobic assholes who, as a Southern Republican operative snarked on NPR recently, want to turn the clock back to 1956.

Plenty of evidence to support that view. The selection of American Freedom Party leader and white nationalist William Johnson as a Trump delegate in California has come back to bite him; his team subsequently tried to get Johnson removed as a delegate but it was too late.

Johnson had this to say about his selection (before the attempted removal):

For many, many years, when I would say these things, other white people would call me names: “Oh, you’re a hatemonger, you’re a Nazi, you’re like Hitler.” Now they come in and say, “Oh, you’re like Donald Trump.”

[DerekMichaels00]

@adaher

I wouldn’t call him a liberal either, but he is a populist of the rather ugly variety. He’s actually more like Andrew Jackson.

Strom Thurmond would be a better comparison