UW professor got it right on Trump. So why is he being ignored?
The story we’ve told ourselves — that working-class whites flocked to Trump due to job worries or free trade or economic populism — is basically wrong, the research papers released this week suggest.
They did flock to Trump. But the reason they did so in enough numbers for Trump to win wasn’t anxiety about the economy. It was anxiety about Mexicans, Muslims and blacks.
Here’s how they put it in academese: “What stands out most, however, is the attitudes that became more strongly related to the vote in 2016: attitudes about immigration, feelings toward black people, and feelings toward Muslims,” writes George Washington University professor John Sides. He notes that the media focused on less-educated whites, but negative racial attitudes fueled by Trump were a big motivator for college-educated whites, too.
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“I’ve got three words for you: scared white people,” Parker says. “Every period of racial progress in this country is followed by a period of retrenchment. That’s what the 2016 election was about, and it was plain as it was happening.”
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I thought we as a nation were better than this. 
Racism is a great word, it says exactly what it means. Everybody understands misogyny, I don' t have to explain it.
The Republican Party - and Trump - played the racism & sexism cards and it worked.
Plus they cheated, lied and stole the election, but that was afterwards.
Professors should keep their language simple and people will understand.
Rush Limbaugh knows how to do that really well.
