09-11-2016, 11:10 PM
Quote:http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/arch...ht/507155/
Downplaying the racist views of Trump supporters is an evasion of the facts.
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- PETER BEINART
- 2:49 PM ET
...conservatives have insisted that economic distress does not cause jihadist terror. The real source, they insist, is Islamic culture. For decades, they've argued that economic distress does not cause unwed pregnancy and drug addiction among African Americans. The real explanation lies with inner city black culture. Given those precedents, you would think conservatives would embrace a cultural rather than economic explanation for Trump's appeal, especially when the evidence points so strongly in that direction. But when it's whites acting badly, not blacks or Muslims, [/FONT]suddenly economic distress matters a great deal. [/FONT]Of course, some Trump supporters have "legitimate concerns" about their economic circumstances. But these concerns don't distinguish them from other Americans. In fact, among voters who earn less than $50,000, Clinton won handily. Trump won among those who make more than $250,000. What differentiates Trump's supporters is their resentment toward immigrants, Muslims, African Americans and feministsanyone who challenges the hierarchies that reigned back when America was great.[/FONT]
Should Americans who loathe Trump talk to his supporters about their concerns and, where possible, find areas of common purpose? Sure. But I thought conservatives like Erickson favored blunt truths over dishonest kumbaya. The blunt truth is that most Trump supporters hold bigoted views.....[/FONT]
So far, denial of the gravest crisis to confront "the Union" since Lee's army marched into Pennsylvania in June, 1863.
Are we up to performing the duty to confront the challenge and put it down? Do we prudently post such questions publicly under our own names, anymore?
Peter Janney's uncle was Frank Pace, chairman of General Dynamics who enlisted law partners Roswell Gilpatric and Luce's brother-in-law, Maurice "Tex" Moore, in a trade of 16 percent of Gen. Dyn. stock in exchange for Henry Crown and his Material Service Corp. of Chicago, headed by Byfield's Sherman Hotel group's Pat Hoy. The Crown family and partner Conrad Hilton next benefitted from TFX, at the time, the most costly military contract award in the history of the world. Obama was sponsored by the Crowns and Pritzkers. So was Albert Jenner Peter Janney has preferred to write of an imaginary CIA assassination of his surrogate mother, Mary Meyer, but not a word about his Uncle Frank.