The lie that "economic anxiety" motivated Trump's white voters is a zombie idea. .@salon I highlight new research which puts another stake in the head of that claim. It was a fear of losing white privilege and white dominance that drove Trump's voters.
University of Michigan political scientist Diana Mutz destroys that dominant media narrative in her new research in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Pocketbook voting is uncommon. Trump's voters make more than the national average.
With so much evidence against the mainstream news media's love for the "white economic anxiety" lie re: Trump why do they cling to it? Against all the evidence, there is a deep need to presume the inherent goodness of white voters and the benign nature of whiteness.
Trump won all groups of white voters. The consistent variable was white anxiety about losing group power. This leaves a question that I and others have tried to highlight.
The white racial frame helped to a elect a white supremacist political cult leader Donald Trump. The chickens have truly come home to roost. But folks, too many in the mainstream news media, keep hoping things will somehow be okay. They won't be.
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