Stephen Long—whose work I quite enjoyed when he was the financial correspondent for the ABC—posted this piece of analysis this morning. It's too short to have any depth to it, but I think it sums up nicely why so many women and brown people voted for Trump, despite his image as a racist, sexist, etc-ist.
Basically, economic interest Trumps everything else.
In 2008, Obama rode into power by promising change, and then proceeded to give his supporters the finger by following the same general path as Bush, Clinton, Bush, and Reagan. This time around, it was Trump promising change, with Clinton promising a steady hand on the rudder and no significant deviation from the present course.
It's entirely possible that Trump's supporters will also be getting the middle finger, but one thing is for absolute certain—a lot of people are not happy with the present course.
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Throngs of demonstrators have held marches across the United States to protest Republican Donald Trump's surprise victory in the US presidential election, blasting his campaign rhetoric about immigrants, Muslims and other groups. ...
Demonstrators smashed storefront windows and set garbage and tires ablaze late on Tuesday (local time) in downtown Oakland. A few miles away, students at the University of California protested on campus.
Surprise, surprise.
Well, this is an article that had to be written sooner or later. Turns out Clinton's loss was all down to sexism. What about the forty something percent of women who voted for Trump? Oh, turns out they were probably just racist.
Expect more of this to come.
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As an interesting aside, I'v seen a few instances now of people seriously questioning whether soft sciences—such as conducting opinion polls—should be re-branded as something else, (eg: studies) to prevent them from tarnishing people's perceptions of science in general.
Annabel Crabb writes:
And what happened is that black women and white women voted like they lived on different planets.
Edison Research reports that 52 per cent of white women voted for Trump. But a full 93 per cent of black women voted for Clinton.
This disparity is deeper than any other recorded between members of a single shared demographic — black and white women were more divided than black and white men, or white men and white women, or black men and black women.
In a country hoping that each successive generation will bear it further away from racial tension, what does it mean that American mothers are so extraordinarily divided along race lines?
That continuous and unedited block of text constitutes the substance of her article.
How the fuck can you seriously make the argument that the female demographic was racially divided when the white female vote was split nearly 50/50?
And Stephen Long has another interesting piece on why—even if Trump is 100% serious about economic reform—he's going to fighting against everybody in power, including his own party.
Here's a mostly nothing article that has an interesting central point that you can get entirely from the title.
Feeling angry about the US election result? That's how Trump voters have felt for years
And Tony Abbott is either very confused, or doing a piss-poor job at bullshitting people.
Another night of nationwide protests against Donald Trump's election have come to a head in Portland, where thousands marched and some smashed store windows, lit firecrackers and sparked a dumpster blaze.
3rd night in a row.
One person has been shot at an anti-Trump demonstration in Portland, police say.
Hmmmm
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