Yes.

Research done.

Honestly, my experience is entirely anecdotal, and I completely admit that. I have not read this article yet, so I don't even know what the conclusion is (but I can make an assumption).

Disclaimer being what it is, literally all of the full-on racist people I know or have known are also MAGA conservatives. And conversely, all the MAGA people I know or have known are way more racist than average. I say that from the perspective that, at least in the USA, most people have racial biases to a certain extent.

I've been told things like "You don't have the right skin color to take the bus into the city", meaning because I'm Caucasian with "white" skin, I would somehow be an outlier among the rest of the folks taking the bus. Many, many times I've heard statements like "we can't even say [the N-word] anymore even though that's what they call themselves all the time" and let me tell you the people saying that don't say "N-word" they say the real deal that rhymes with chigger. They'll claim illegal "Mexicans" took their jobs, without a moment's thought about who hired those "Mexicans" or what nationality those "Mexicans" are. There's really no skin color other than white-white that doesn't receive some hate.

Anyway, this is just old man ranting at this point, and it may even be too long to be readable, so let me summarize it with FUCK RACISTS & FUCK MAGA.

Hmmm, I wonder if the political base that waves Confederate and nazi flags, serves a fascist dictatorship, and works alongside fascists globally might be racist? What a real head scratcher that is, who knows really

/s

I'm sure many don't think they're racist but most if not all probably buy into the line that we all have an equal playing field in life and any statement to the contrary is just victimhood.

Does the Pope shit in the woods?

"He's not hurting the people he needs to be."

Begin?

So... MAGA = Cucks? Once again, every accusation is a confession.

They're not all racists but all racists are maga

Is a circle round?

Short answer: Yes.

Long answer: YEEEEESSSSSSSSSS.

Your just now deciding to weigh in on this? After how fucking long?

His base is fueled by a fear that the "wrong" people (people that look, speak,dress, act, believe differently, and that I don't really know) are trying to take the country from the "good" people (people like me, that I know).

The issue is that the only cure is to make people get outside of their box. I really started to realize this when I began working with more departments/clinicians in the hospital I was working at. What I've found is that the more you get out there and interact with people who aren't like you, the more you realize that broad generalizations aren't really worth a damn, and that there's more good people of all types than you'd think. The main thing they have in common is that they aren't fucking shitwad billionaires.

I used to show up early for work to catch the morning rush of doctors in the physicians lounge and see a Muslim doctor or two praying after being there since 2am because they were on call, and decided to round on all their consults before they left, and here I am rolling in hungover just waiting to pound out another 8 hours so I can go home and get drunk and high for another night.

Their findings will be published in the "Journal Of No Shit Sherlock."

Oh come on they can't be racist! There's people of color in that base! What are they, racist against themselves? Please, that makes no sense. That's like if there were Jews that supported the Nazis! Or black folk that fought for the Confederacy!

/s if that's not obvious

HOLY FUCK! PEOPLE WHO VOTE FOR ETHNIC CLEANSING ARE RACIST!

How many racists do you know that didn’t vote for Trump?

The entire problem is very specifically that they lie about the economy in lockstep, and the media reports it and then idiot centrists are like "oh yeah I guess the economy is bad? People keep talking about it so it must be true."

I mean, obviously the answer is yes. But that is a great hook into what's next.

This article also does a good job of making an argument for the Democrats to tack left and have a strong contrasting message to the Republicans. Even the squishiest, least offensive MAGA is still pretty far right and closer to Trump than to any Democrat. They don't even regret their votes in any appreciable way. The most regret is coming from people who stayed home or voted third party. Give them a real contrast so even the most intellectually dishonest grifter can't say "both sides" anymore.

If the Democrats had a real message and some fight in them, they could be an opposition party. Instead, most just want to write strongly worded letters without doing the hard work. And with that, they might actually win elections. Too bad they're only starting to figure this out now when it's probably too late.

"Centrist" pundits be like: "No, it's the democrats, who went too far by language policing whites for calling blacks a historically accepted word blacks use in rap music, and other double standards, especially within law enforcement, favoring blacks over other races."

Wasn't this settled way back when?

Anyway, I seem to remember that digging deeper on donvict's base after Hillary's deplorables "gaffe" (not a fucking "gaffe" to tell the goddamn truth about awful people) found that she was basically correct - a portion of them are racists, xenophobes, homophobes, misogynists...

You need academics, research scientists and a bunch of professionals to figure this out?

This like asking firefighters to produce a research paper to determine if there is a fire for the towering burning 50 story inferno that's lighting up the skyline.

Suck it, Betteridge !

I could have saved them some time, yes, yes they are. Now who do I call to get my name on this paper?

Sigh... They're not racist they're just "economically anxious".

Me, a social scientist as well: Bubbler noises

Unequivocally yes. Next question.

Is a frog’s ass watertight?

It goes something like this: Trump’s biggest supporters are motivated by bigotry and want him to hurt the people they dislike.

Hence his supporter whining that he's not hurting the people he "needs" to be hurting. I'm sure many of us personally know people just like this and most definitely do get a chubby when they think about someone like donvict actively harming certain segments of society.

I'm a Democratic Strategist and I think the BEST Takeaway from THIS is that we NEED to Start HURTING More People VERY LOUDLY so we can get THESE Votes INSTEAD of Trying to Keep the Voters we ALREADY have!

It's not always necessary to believe in white supremacy to support white supremacist policy. It would be sufficient to just be a psychopath who is white.

If you have no empathy, no capacity for compassion, give zero shits about justice or the greater good of society, and you believe that putting racists in power will help people of your own race, that's what you're going to do. Because it might help you, personally, to get ahead.

I think there are more of these people in the Republican party than there are those who actually think the white race is superior and deserves to rule.

The Trump supporters I know definitely are