Trump Voters Are White Supremacists
February 25, 2016
EVEN when there are no polls to prove that Donald Trump’s supporters are hateful bigots, polls that show the opposite — that’s right, polls that show the opposite — are analyzed into revealing the supposed white fascists in our midst. I’m not a Trump fan, but I’m not a fan of these characterizations of his supporters either.
From The New York Times′s recent report, “Measuring Donald Trump’s Supporters for Intolerance:”
(Mind you, is there any need to read the article since right off the bat we are told it shows “intolerance?” Is there any need to read the disclaimer, buried in the text, that at least one of these polling operations is so obviously a tool of the Democratic party that even The New York Times must acknowledge it?)
The P.P.P. poll asked voters if they thought whites were a superior race. Most Republican primary voters in South Carolina — 78 percent — disagreed with this idea (10 percent agreed and 11 percent weren’t sure). But among Mr. Trump’s supporters, only 69 percent disagreed. Mr. Carson’s voters were the most opposed to the notion (99 percent), followed by Mr. Kasich and Mr. Cruz’s supporters at 92 and 89 percent. Mr. Rubio’s backers were close to the average level of disagreement (76 percent).
How is 69 percent an “only?” The headline, based on these figures, should be: “Trump Supporters Overwhelmingly Reject White Supremacy.” But the show must go on. Even when the numbers do not add up. Notice there no figures of those in the Trump camp who are undecided. Those figures might suggest that the idea was confusing to many of Trump’s supporters, and the number who actually do believe in expressing the idea of the superiority of the white race, an extremely loaded and ambiguous concept, is small.
A shocking 38 percent of Trump voters in South Carolina wish the South won the Civil War!! Do you believe it? A small fraction of the South Carolina population presumably wishes their ancestors had not been conquered in a devastating war and had broken away from the federal leviathan to end slavery on their own! Translation: Trump supporters want to bring back slavery!! They do.
Nationally, further analyses of the YouGov data show a similar trend: Nearly 20 percent of Mr. Trump’s voters disagreed with Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, which freed slaves in the Southern states during the Civil War. Only 5 percent of Mr. Rubio’s voters share this view.
Mr. Trump’s popularity with white, working-class voters who are more likely than other Republicans to believe that whites are a supreme race and who long for the Confederacy may make him unpopular among leaders in his party. But it’s worth noting that he isn’t persuading voters to hold these beliefs. The beliefs were there — and have been for some time.
You see?! Trump supporters are pro-slavery. It’s been there all along. This is their America:
Those evil white supremacists are so evil they probably even reject the wonderful world of black moral liberation:
Innocent naifs in the Northeast who have never stepped south of the Mason-Dixon line, except perhaps to visit Florida or golf resorts, actually believe this horse manure about Southerners, which is shoveled by the truckload into their Yankee minds from a very tender age at the concentration camps known as schools. They do. The truth is, Southerners have superior, more civilized relations with blacks than bigots in the North, whose money values, sense of life as an intense meritocracy, “let-them-eat-pornography” noblesse oblige and destruction of dignified manual labor have made blacks too often incapable of independent survival and helped turn them, with the aid of the Commie grievance artistes at places like The New York Times, into snarling radicals whose expectations for what whites owe them can never possibly be fulfilled.