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Not a happy future for bitter old uneducated ones
Trump’s victory, which he secured despite losing by 2.8 million actual votes, marks a new chapter in the American culture wars, a story of sharp turns.
Yet the picture of diversity is also now hegemonic, and it has produced two paradoxical and opposite reactions.
First, Trump used it to mobilize a declining white majority. This decline is effective: an emotional miasma in which real economic woes conjoin with an existential dolor, seen in tragically rising rates of opioid addiction and suicide, and the zero-sum logic of American meritocracy, where a gain for communities of color signals a loss for whites. But the decline is also demographic. In less than a decade, all Americans under the age of 18 will be numerical minorities. From this perspective, Trump’s election is a step back from the onrushing apocalypse.
What Comes After Donald Trump
Trump’s victory, which he secured despite losing by 2.8 million actual votes, marks a new chapter in the American culture wars, a story of sharp turns.
Yet the picture of diversity is also now hegemonic, and it has produced two paradoxical and opposite reactions.
First, Trump used it to mobilize a declining white majority. This decline is effective: an emotional miasma in which real economic woes conjoin with an existential dolor, seen in tragically rising rates of opioid addiction and suicide, and the zero-sum logic of American meritocracy, where a gain for communities of color signals a loss for whites. But the decline is also demographic. In less than a decade, all Americans under the age of 18 will be numerical minorities. From this perspective, Trump’s election is a step back from the onrushing apocalypse.
What Comes After Donald Trump
