MAGA-The Cult of Victimhood

[whitehall]

"The Atlantic"? Are you serious? The Atlantic had Kamala slotted for a big win last year on Oct. 24. Why do lefties continue to believe this nonsense?

 

[IM2]

"The Atlantic"? Are you serious? The Atlantic had Kamala slotted for a big win last year on Oct. 24. Why do lefties continue to believe this nonsense?

White victimhood is what Trump ran n in 2016 and 2020. So he continued in 2024. MAGA is nothing but white grievance and victimhood. The Atlantic is certainly not the only publication to see this, and the Atlantic is certainly more credible than any of the right-wing trash that predicted a Trump landslide win in 2020 or who have continued whining about a stolen election. So don't even start. The fact is that white grievance didn't start with MAGA, it started with Goldwater.

 

[Kondor3]

I guess it's OK for whites to be victims. Because the MAGA Movement is based on victimhood. From white heterosexual males feeling feminized, to the Deep State, the entire MAGA Movement is nothing but a white grievance industry that has made household names from nobodies, and has made people rich by playing on right-wing resentment.

This is an article by David Frum. Frum is no liberal

The Conservative Cult of Victimhood​

Trump was a perpetrator who thought himself a victim, and American society has indulged that same illusion among Trump supporters.
By David Frum

Again and again since Election Night 2020, Republicans have urged sympathy and accommodation for those who refused to accept the election outcome. Give them space for their feelings. What harm will it do to humor them a little longer?

Over the past half decade, we have turned much of the country’s mindscape into a group-therapy session for Trump believers. Reporters play the part of the therapist, reassuring the analyzed of a safe space for their grievances and complaints. The pro-Trump world has accepted the invitation. Even as Trump commits one constitutional, legal, and ethical abuse after another, his followers depict themselves as somehow the people truly suffering unfairness. Trump was a perpetrator who thought himself a victim, and American society has indulged that same illusion among Trump supporters.

Hawley described himself as a victim of a “woke mob” after his publisher terminated his book contract because of his leadership role in propagating the falsehoods that inspired the attack. Cruz, who shoved himself to the forefront of the movement to overturn the 2020 election, has accused his critics, beginning with Biden, of “vicious, partisan rhetoric that tears our country apart.” The head of the American Conservative Union—a lobbyist married to Trump’s communications director—lamented that he and his fellow Trump supporters were being sent to a “digital Gulag.” A co-publisher of the conservative news site Human Events tweeted: “The conservative movement is about to face a level of collective discrimination by the institutions of our society not seen since Jim Crow.” The op-ed editor of the New York Post topped that analogy: “We're now going to see US sanctions—à la Iraq and Iran—applied to religious conservatives, economic leftists and others who reject the reigning corporate woke orthodoxy. Oh, you don't think there are 157 genders? There goes your access to banking!”

The central concept in modern conservatism is victimhood. Responsibility, accountability—those are standards they apply to others, never to themselves. Even as they confront their stark record of complicity and culpability, they cannot absorb it.

The Conservative Cult of Victimhood

Trump was a perpetrator who thought himself a victim, and American society has indulged that same illusion among Trump supporters.

www.theatlantic.com

They merely took a page from the Black Racist Perpetual Victim Playbook...

 

[IM2]

How White Victimhood Fuels Republican Politics​

By Alex Samuels and Neil Lewis Jr.
Mar. 21, 2022

On Nov. 4, 2008, Barack Obama, then a senator from Illinois, was elected the first Black president of the United States. His election was seen as a hopeful moment in America and ushered in lots of think pieces and reporting that his presidency was the start of a new “post-racial” society. At long last — in the eyes of many, at least — there was hope that the racial wounds that have long divided Black and white Americans would heal.

That, of course, never happened. Even at the time, certain white voters refused to vote for Obama because of his race, and a rise in hate crimes followed his win. In the lead up to Obama’s first election, some polls showed that only about one-third of white Americans (38 percent) thought Obama would help race relations, compared with 60 percent of Black Americans. Moreover, a plurality of white Americans thought (or, perhaps, hoped) that his candidacy would have no impact on race relations, essentially upholding the status quo. What’s more, some white voters during this period started to become resentful of a Black man ascending to the highest political office. And that backlash, in part, spurred the election of former President Donald Trump eight years later.

Trump’s election killed any illusions anyone might have had about a “post-racial” America. Indeed, Trump was successful in finding a predominately white audience who lapped up his overt racism toward people of color and who were eager to embrace a rising sense of white victimhood.

Trump may be out of power, but those feelings aren’t. They may even be growing.

With President Biden having just passed one full year in office, public opinion research shows that white Americans — and especially Republicans — see whites as victims of discrimination more than, say, Hispanic or Black Americans. According to a 2021 survey by the Pew Research Center, for example, only 17 percent of Republican and Republican-leaning Americans said there is “a lot” of discrimination against Black people in today’s society. That number rose to 26 percent when Republicans were asked whether they believed white people faced “a lot” of discrimination. And intense white racial resentment remains present both among Trump’s base and in our politics today. Case in point: Trump, who’s a (very, very early) favorite to win the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, is still hitting that same drum; during a recent political event, the former president went so far as to falsely claim that white people were currently being discriminated against and sent to the “back of the line” when it came to receiving COVID-19 vaccines and treatment.

Trump is not the first white person to feel like a victim of discrimination or to make claims in that spirit. This phenomenon started long before him. But in the U.S., if we look at things like the racial wealth gap, mortgage denial rates, COVID-19 vaccination and illness rates, police violence rates or myriad other data sets, we quickly see plenty of systemic biases against Black Americans and other minority groups (such as increasing hate crimes against Asian Americans). You can’t, however, find such widespread evidence for anti-white discrimination. So why have many white Americans started to see themselves as the victims of racial discrimination?

Back in 2011, Harvard Business School professor Michael Norton and Tufts University professor Samuel Sommers published a study showing that white Americans perceived bias against whites as increasing from the 1950s to the 2000s.

According to Sommers, it’s hard to pinpoint just one factor driving this feeling of white victimhood among white Americans. “There’s this sense that there’s only so much of anything to go around, so more of something for other groups or entities might mean less of something for me and my group,” he told us. “That makes a lot of sense when you’re talking about food at the table in front of you, but it feels like it’s getting applied to things like equal rights — or respect and status.”

These feelings were especially prevalent in the late 2000s, when white people saw a Black man rising to the nation’s highest office. But today, beyond Obama, other perceived “threats” to white Americans — such as an increasingly multiracial nation that could eventually lead to the U.S. becoming a “majority-minority” society, or Trump’s loss in 2020 to Biden — likely fueled existing beliefs and feelings of inadequacy and victimhood among white Americans.

How White Victimhood Fuels Republican Politics

On Nov. 4, 2008, Barack Obama, then a senator from Illinois, was elected the first Black president of the United States. His election was seen as a hopeful mome…

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[IM2]

They merely took a page from the Black Racist Perpetual Victim Playbook...

Wrong again *****. White racism is based on perpetual victimhood. For 249 years whites like you have played the victim. White victimhood has been passed from generation to generation. Whites live you suffer from mental illness due to the delusion passed down to you by your parents and grandparents.

 

[Correll]

Wrong again *****. White racism is based on perpetual victimhood. For 249 years whites like you have played the victim. White victimhood has been passed from generation to generation. Whites live you suffer from mental illness due to the delusion passed down to you by your parents and grandparents.

The more shit leftards like you talk, the more the message is, there is no point talking to people like you.

So, we instead will simply crush you.

 

[Andrew_Jackson_FTW]

There is no irony here except for you white Repubicans who can't see that you guys have been the ones playing the victim and that you guys have been the ones who have made a cottage industry out of racism. This is how things have always been. Whites tell themselves that everybody else is doing the things they are doing, and choose to ignore or deny their behavior.

40% of black men support Trump

 

[Harry Dresden]

Wrong again *****. White racism is based on perpetual victimhood. For 249 years whites like you have played the victim. White victimhood has been passed from generation to generation. Whites live you suffer from mental illness due to the delusion passed down to you by your parents and grandparents.

lol...the ***** who puts people on ignore for having the gaul and audacity for questioning what he says calling others a *****?.....you are a piece of work im2....

 

[OODA_Loop]

40% of black men support Trump

In before IM2 declares them all buckdancing coons.

 

[LAUGHatLEFTISTS]

There is no irony here except for you white Repubicans who can't see that you guys have been the ones playing the victim and that you guys have been the ones who have made a cottage industry out of racism. This is how things have always been. Whites tell themselves that everybody else is doing the things they are doing, and choose to ignore or deny their behavior.

White White White White!

 

[struth]

I guess it's OK for whites to be victims. Because the MAGA Movement is based on victimhood. From white heterosexual males feeling feminized, to the Deep State, the entire MAGA Movement is nothing but a white grievance industry that has made household names from nobodies, and has made people rich by playing on right-wing resentment.

This is an article by David Frum. Frum is no liberal

The Conservative Cult of Victimhood​

Trump was a perpetrator who thought himself a victim, and American society has indulged that same illusion among Trump supporters.
By David Frum

Again and again since Election Night 2020, Republicans have urged sympathy and accommodation for those who refused to accept the election outcome. Give them space for their feelings. What harm will it do to humor them a little longer?

Over the past half decade, we have turned much of the country’s mindscape into a group-therapy session for Trump believers. Reporters play the part of the therapist, reassuring the analyzed of a safe space for their grievances and complaints. The pro-Trump world has accepted the invitation. Even as Trump commits one constitutional, legal, and ethical abuse after another, his followers depict themselves as somehow the people truly suffering unfairness. Trump was a perpetrator who thought himself a victim, and American society has indulged that same illusion among Trump supporters.

Hawley described himself as a victim of a “woke mob” after his publisher terminated his book contract because of his leadership role in propagating the falsehoods that inspired the attack. Cruz, who shoved himself to the forefront of the movement to overturn the 2020 election, has accused his critics, beginning with Biden, of “vicious, partisan rhetoric that tears our country apart.” The head of the American Conservative Union—a lobbyist married to Trump’s communications director—lamented that he and his fellow Trump supporters were being sent to a “digital Gulag.” A co-publisher of the conservative news site Human Events tweeted: “The conservative movement is about to face a level of collective discrimination by the institutions of our society not seen since Jim Crow.” The op-ed editor of the New York Post topped that analogy: “We're now going to see US sanctions—à la Iraq and Iran—applied to religious conservatives, economic leftists and others who reject the reigning corporate woke orthodoxy. Oh, you don't think there are 157 genders? There goes your access to banking!”

The central concept in modern conservatism is victimhood. Responsibility, accountability—those are standards they apply to others, never to themselves. Even as they confront their stark record of complicity and culpability, they cannot absorb it.

The Conservative Cult of Victimhood

Trump was a perpetrator who thought himself a victim, and American society has indulged that same illusion among Trump supporters.

www.theatlantic.com

He’s a Canuck that gets paid by msdnc and the Atlantic

The irony of his piece is he is playing a victim

 

[August West]

The Atlantic?

Yes The Atlantic....since 1857.
It doesn`t have the prestige of Epoch Times and Breitbart or any of the other Klan publications.

 

[Kondor3]

Yes The Atlantic....since 1857.
It doesn`t have the prestige of Epoch Times and Breitbart or any of the other Klan publications.

OK... even though I'm more an Indie now than a Dem... THAT was funny...

 

[dudmuck]

White White White White!

 

[initforme]

Those that cry about the non existent war on men are laughable.

 

[Mack The Finger]

I guess it's OK for whites to be victims. Because the MAGA Movement is based on victimhood. From white heterosexual males feeling feminized, to the Deep State, the entire MAGA Movement is nothing but a white grievance industry that has made household names from nobodies, and has made people rich by playing on right-wing resentment.

You're a dime a dozen hack.

 

[Deplorable Yankee]

I guess it's OK for whites to be victims. Because the MAGA Movement is based on victimhood. From white heterosexual males feeling feminized, to the Deep State, the entire MAGA Movement is nothing but a white grievance industry that has made household names from nobodies, and has made people rich by playing on right-wing resentment.

This is an article by David Frum. Frum is no liberal

The Conservative Cult of Victimhood​

Trump was a perpetrator who thought himself a victim, and American society has indulged that same illusion among Trump supporters.
By David Frum

Again and again since Election Night 2020, Republicans have urged sympathy and accommodation for those who refused to accept the election outcome. Give them space for their feelings. What harm will it do to humor them a little longer?

Over the past half decade, we have turned much of the country’s mindscape into a group-therapy session for Trump believers. Reporters play the part of the therapist, reassuring the analyzed of a safe space for their grievances and complaints. The pro-Trump world has accepted the invitation. Even as Trump commits one constitutional, legal, and ethical abuse after another, his followers depict themselves as somehow the people truly suffering unfairness. Trump was a perpetrator who thought himself a victim, and American society has indulged that same illusion among Trump supporters.

Hawley described himself as a victim of a “woke mob” after his publisher terminated his book contract because of his leadership role in propagating the falsehoods that inspired the attack. Cruz, who shoved himself to the forefront of the movement to overturn the 2020 election, has accused his critics, beginning with Biden, of “vicious, partisan rhetoric that tears our country apart.” The head of the American Conservative Union—a lobbyist married to Trump’s communications director—lamented that he and his fellow Trump supporters were being sent to a “digital Gulag.” A co-publisher of the conservative news site Human Events tweeted: “The conservative movement is about to face a level of collective discrimination by the institutions of our society not seen since Jim Crow.” The op-ed editor of the New York Post topped that analogy: “We're now going to see US sanctions—à la Iraq and Iran—applied to religious conservatives, economic leftists and others who reject the reigning corporate woke orthodoxy. Oh, you don't think there are 157 genders? There goes your access to banking!”

The central concept in modern conservatism is victimhood. Responsibility, accountability—those are standards they apply to others, never to themselves. Even as they confront their stark record of complicity and culpability, they cannot absorb it.

The Conservative Cult of Victimhood

Trump was a perpetrator who thought himself a victim, and American society has indulged that same illusion among Trump supporters.

www.theatlantic.com

They're still crying over Sydney Sweeny
Its just envy and jealousy



Pjw chimes in again ...cause they're still crying
And noticed dunkin donuts

 

[Hafar1014]

I guess it's OK for whites to be victims. Because the MAGA Movement is based on victimhood. From white heterosexual males feeling feminized, to the Deep State, the entire MAGA Movement is nothing but a white grievance industry that has made household names from nobodies, and has made people rich by playing on right-wing resentment.

This is an article by David Frum. Frum is no liberal

The Conservative Cult of Victimhood​

Trump was a perpetrator who thought himself a victim, and American society has indulged that same illusion among Trump supporters.
By David Frum

Again and again since Election Night 2020, Republicans have urged sympathy and accommodation for those who refused to accept the election outcome. Give them space for their feelings. What harm will it do to humor them a little longer?

Over the past half decade, we have turned much of the country’s mindscape into a group-therapy session for Trump believers. Reporters play the part of the therapist, reassuring the analyzed of a safe space for their grievances and complaints. The pro-Trump world has accepted the invitation. Even as Trump commits one constitutional, legal, and ethical abuse after another, his followers depict themselves as somehow the people truly suffering unfairness. Trump was a perpetrator who thought himself a victim, and American society has indulged that same illusion among Trump supporters.

Hawley described himself as a victim of a “woke mob” after his publisher terminated his book contract because of his leadership role in propagating the falsehoods that inspired the attack. Cruz, who shoved himself to the forefront of the movement to overturn the 2020 election, has accused his critics, beginning with Biden, of “vicious, partisan rhetoric that tears our country apart.” The head of the American Conservative Union—a lobbyist married to Trump’s communications director—lamented that he and his fellow Trump supporters were being sent to a “digital Gulag.” A co-publisher of the conservative news site Human Events tweeted: “The conservative movement is about to face a level of collective discrimination by the institutions of our society not seen since Jim Crow.” The op-ed editor of the New York Post topped that analogy: “We're now going to see US sanctions—à la Iraq and Iran—applied to religious conservatives, economic leftists and others who reject the reigning corporate woke orthodoxy. Oh, you don't think there are 157 genders? There goes your access to banking!”

The central concept in modern conservatism is victimhood. Responsibility, accountability—those are standards they apply to others, never to themselves. Even as they confront their stark record of complicity and culpability, they cannot absorb it.

The Conservative Cult of Victimhood

Trump was a perpetrator who thought himself a victim, and American society has indulged that same illusion among Trump supporters.

www.theatlantic.com

The progressive doctrine is to accuse opponents of what they really are. The entire progressive ideology is based on victimization. DEI CRT racism trans absurdity poverty climate change all attempt to make us victims.

The defeat of this destructive ideology by MAGA proves we are not victims. We kicked your ass. Whose the victim now

 

[Correll]

He has never said that. YOu are a liar.

 

[dudmuck]

He has never said that. YOu are a liar.