Thread by @EricLondonSEP

Thread: There are not 71 million fascists in America.

Why did e. Ohio, central Indiana, s. West Virginia and the Rio Grande Valley, TX see increased support for Trump? WSWS analyzed past vote & found:

#ElectionResults2020 #Election2020results

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wsws.org/en/articles/20…

Trump increased support in 2020 (versus 2016) in cities like Steubenville and Youngstown Ohio, Brownsville, Texas, Kokomo, Indiana and the former coal counties of southern Virginia. Some areas predominantly white, some rural, but some black and Latino.

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One commonality is that they were all former Democratic strongholds (except Howard County, IN).

In Mahoning County, Ohio, a majority of voters supported the Republican candidate in 2020 for the first time since 1956, when Dwight Eisenhower led the ticket.

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They are all very impoverished/ravaged by social crisis. Nearly 55 % of the population of the Rio Grande Valley is below the fed poverty line. In July Howard County, IN ran out of money for autopsies on overdose victims. In S. WV, child poverty increased 20 % from '10 to '17

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These counties voted substantially more for Obama in 2008, dispelling the claim the voters there are all racists.

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In many counties, support for Sanders was high in 2016 but tanked in 2020 after he endorsed Hillary Clinton and worked to prop up the Democratic Party.

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What is req'd is to win these workers on the basis of a real program to confiscate the wealth of the financial aristocracy & distribute it to meet needs of broad sections of the working class who have been subject to decades of attacks on social conditions by both Dems & GOP.

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The Socialist Equality Party opposes the racialists and proponents of identity politics who blame “white people” for Trump’s vote. This is guaranteed to spread racial animosity. The development of a socialist movement independent of both parties is required to raise...

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...the cultural level of all sections of the working class, train them in the history of the class struggle, and convince them of the need for the racial and international unity of the working class against the capitalist system.

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