While sexism, religious & racial nationalism are factors in Trump support, local economic stagnation is a big factor also.
GOP elites have figured out how to combine marginalization fears and exploit them rather than be rightfully blamed for the economic problems they caused.
GOP elites have figured out how to combine marginalization fears and exploit them rather than be rightfully blamed for the economic problems they caused.
https://twitter.com/PollsAndVotes/status/1344780216682639363
GOP political consultants invented identity politics for southern white Christians but as the strategy succeeded, they expanded its purview into a theory of inverse intersectionality in which racial or sexual minorities can support Christian white nationalism
Under inverse intersectionality, a black male atheist can lend support to Proud Boys white nationalism because it's anti-feminist and labeled as "western chauvinism"
Right wing inverse intersectionality is also what's bringing in Hispanic evangelicals into the GOP fold. To this group, because Trump promises extra rights for Christians and to oppose LGBT, his policies and defamatory remarks against Latino immigrants don't matter.
This is also why so many impoverished rural white people vote for a party that has actively worked against small towns through its economic policies. They become irrelevant because Democrats supposedly hate Christians and are pawns of antifa commies.
The solution is to expand our compassion and to begin building up new organizations that help individuals and expose them to real intersectionality.
The far right has had minority rule for decades by dividing and conquering. Don't fall for the plan.
The far right has had minority rule for decades by dividing and conquering. Don't fall for the plan.
For a great look at multiracial organizing on the far right, please read this piece from @DLamontJenkins politicalresearch.org/2019/09/03/cul…
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