They aren't marginalized or 'left behind,' though they feel excluded. They want to keep their white, Christian, male privilege.

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Many factors explain why people across Western democracies vote for politicians like former President Trump, including economic concerns, rural resentment and racial animosity. Although Trump supporters have been characterized as “left behind,” “stigmatized” or even “marginalized,” these ascriptions are dangerously off base.

For one, they fuel the self-victimization narratives common among radical right movements, driving conspiracies and support for this ideology. Moreover, they neglect that historically powerful groups such as white people, men and Christians are overrepresented among Trump supporters. Even today, these groups remain privileged politically, economically and culturally. By objective measures, most Trump supporters are not left behind, stigmatized or marginalized.

  • forrcaho@lemmy.world
    771·
    2 months ago

    They aren’t marginalized or ‘left behind,’ though they feel excluded. They want to keep their white, Christian, male privilege.

    That pretty much sums it up – do I even need to read the article?

        • Billiam@lemmy.world
          10·
          2 months ago

          The people who have nothing to be proud of except their skin color or what genitals they have are now being told those aren’t something they should be proud of. And now they realize that they don’t have anything to be proud of, they’re rebelling. But they’re blaming those they look down on, instead of directing their rage at the real reason they have nothing- the wealthy ownership class and the political party they control.

      • Feathercrown@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        2 months ago

        I don’t like how this phrase has been weaponized but yeah nobody can deny that this is what’s happening here

    • Whopraysforthedevil@midwest.socialEnglish
      6·
      2 months ago

      I disagree. In the wake of the '08 financial crisis entire communities were left decimated. Those same communities were then victimized by pharmaceutical companies pushing opiates. The right offers easy scapegoats for these people: immigrants, LGBTQ folks, the “deep state”.

      The American left doesn’t offer an alternative. Instead of pointing out that the real criminals are billionaires and giant corporations, they try to side step the real issues and engage with distraction of the culture war.

      I think a perfect example of this was the Democrats’ “demonstration” after George Floyd’s murder. Instead of pushing for police reform, they just wore kente cloths and raised their fists. They only way in which they were an alternative to the GOP was by not being openly racist. While I prefer that, and I think those that don’t are wrong, it’s understandable that angry, hurt, and uneducated people would be willing to be led astray by someone who actually offered solutions (evil as they are).

    • InverseParallax@lemmy.worldEnglish
      61·
      2 months ago

      No, it’s wrong.

      They are left behind.

      Because they choose to deny reality, believing we’re still back in the later roman era where the church controls all and slaves exist to serve their bidding.

      We don’t point at the Taliban and say “Oh, the poor, left behind, economically anxious, marginalized rural folk!”

      You can’t point at Dixiecrats and act like they’re some kind of innocent victims in this, they’ve had a century and a half to actually try to do anything and they’ve doubled down every time.

  • gravitas_deficiencyEnglish
    373·
    2 months ago

    What the media still gets wrong about Trump supporters is that the vast majority of them are some combination of stupid, racist, or psychopathically greedy. Stop beating around the fucking bush.

    • ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world
      6·
      2 months ago

      I remember hearing an interview with a guy who studied the Jan 6 insurrection. He found that the most common demographic other than white, male, and Christian was that they were a small business owner.

    • HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com
      1·
      2 months ago

      I mean when I see people talking to folks at the rally those folks talk about traveling around and getting to them like they don’t otherwise have to work.

  • spaghettiwestern
    51·
    2 months ago

    George Carlin explains the MAGA cult almost perfectly:

    “Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”

  • Nougat@fedia.io
    21·
    2 months ago

    Social psychological theories suggest two necessary conditions for people to feel included. First, they need to simply belong to the larger group — as white people, men and Christians racists in U.S. society do. Second, they need to feel that their unique racist backgrounds are respected and appreciated within the larger group. Hence, people may feel excluded from a group when they feel unseen or disrespected for their racist backgrounds even if they belong to the group.