The Angry White Male Caucus Trumpism is all about the fear of losing traditional privilege.
By Paul Krugman
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/01/opinion/kavanaugh-white-male-privilege.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytopinion
Long article, worth the read IMO
snip..."There have been many studies of the forces driving Trump support, and in particular the rage that is so pervasive a feature of the MAGA movement. What Thursdays hearing drove home, however, was that white male rage isnt restricted to blue-collar guys in diners. Its also present among people whove done very well in lifes lottery, whom you would normally consider very much part of the elite."
snip..."What distinguished Trump voters was, instead, racial resentment. Furthermore, this resentment was and is driven not by actual economic losses at the hands of minority groups, but by fear of losing status in a changing country, one in which the privilege of being a white man isnt what it used to be.
And heres the thing: Its perfectly possible for a man to lead a comfortable, indeed enviable life by any objective standard, yet be consumed with bitterness driven by status anxiety."
snip..."And this sort of high-end resentment, the anger of highly privileged people who nonetheless feel that they arent privileged enough or that their privileges might be eroded by social change, suffuses the modern conservative movement."
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(51,626 posts)on Ali Velshi's show. I had to laugh because they said a list of GOP MALES who are crying this BS today, "Life is so unfair to white men" include Rush Limbaugh, Don Jr, Lindsey Graham and Ann Coulter. The last two names really cracked me up.