What Kind of Person is Supporting Trump?

[Davros]

Less educated working class whites are afraid of the demographic and cultural changes coming because it means the loss of their status as members of the preferred class.

Uh... sounds like a winner... the Intelligentsia at work. Despising the working class as untermenschen...

He should have said preferred race.

It would have been just as untrue.

White is the preferred race in this nation.

 

[Meathead]

In an extremely well written letter to the editor in this morning's Los Angeles Times, a reader writes:

"The GOP has done this to itself. By encouraging the hateful rhetoric and anti-government vitriol of Fox News and others, the party has set the stage for Trump ..... Less educated working class whites are afraid of the demographic and cultural changes coming because it means the loss of their status as members of the preferred class. The GOP has taken advantage of this by whipping up fear and anger among them. Along comes their savior, Trump, who tells them what they want to hear.

"The monster is loose, Dr. Frankenstein. Your creature is going to kill you."

I couldn't agree more. Trump is easily on of the most annoying people I have ever seen. His arrogance and lack of humility are exceeded only by his rudeness and obvious lack of class. Can you imagine any presidential candidate in the last 60 years conducting himself the way Trump does on a daily basis? I was listening to the most recent Republican "debate" the other night. Can you imagine Dwight David Eisenhower, Jack Kennedy or, for that matter, Ronald Reagan, saying anything even close to the things that Trump is saying? Of course not.

Times have changed, you say? It's a new dawn for the conducting of presidential campaigns, you say? Hogwash. Have the standards for President of the United States changed? I don't think so. This man is so obviously the wrong person for the job it is not even funny - it's tragic.

"I'm for Trump because he's not afraid to tell it like it is!" Translation? "Trump is a bigoted asshole and so am I!" I feel sadness for all of those who purport to support this arrogant jerk. How they are unable to see beyond his obvious facade is beyond me.

I have mixed emotions about who will ultimately get the Republican nomination. My sincere hope is that it will be Trump, for obvious reasons. It will insure a Democratic victory in November.

Do you honestly consider that well-written?!

God, have we dumbed down that far?

 

[Davros]

You would NEVER see some article put out in the LAslimes that says : the uneducated and worthless black people are the ones supporting Hillary and Bernie.

and that a liberal, like the OP, would put this out and not see a damn thing wrong it. I guess they've used up all that compassion and tolerance they have for all people. disgusting

Where did the words uneducated and worthless come up? I only saw "less educated".

 

[Art__Allm]

Uh... sounds like a winner... the Intelligentsia at work. Despising the working class as untermenschen...

If the hated people are white Americans, then there is no hate speech alarm.
To hate the white majority in the USA seems to be PC.

 

[Mac1958]

I've talked to people from pretty much every "group" who are supporting him. And the same from people who aren't.

Partisans want to keep everything simple, but explaining his popularity isn't.
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[Anathema]

What about Cruz? What is non-Conservative about him?

The easier answer is what IS Conservative about him.... Nothing.

Besides the fact that he was born in another country (citizenship issues aside), the fact that he has been part of a go-along to get-along MAJORITY in Congress, and that I have not heard one word from him about actual CONSERVATIVE policy from his mouth this campaign season.

 

[Davros]

What about Cruz? What is non-Conservative about him?

The easier answer is what IS Conservative about him.... Nothing.

Besides the fact that he was born in another country (citizenship issues aside), the fact that he has been part of a go-along to get-along MAJORITY in Congress, and that I have not heard one word from him about actual CONSERVATIVE policy from his mouth this campaign season.

A flat tax is not conservative?

Have you forgotten he shut down the government reading green eggs and ham?

 

[Art__Allm]

You would NEVER see some article put out in the LAslimes that says : the uneducated and worthless black people are the ones supporting Hillary and Bernie.

Yep, the the self-elected "Itelligentsia" believes to have authority to decide what is hate speech and who can be hated without being called "hater"....

 

[ptbw forever]

Less educated working class whites are afraid of the demographic and cultural changes coming because it means the loss of their status as members of the preferred class.

Uh... sounds like a winner... the Intelligentsia at work. Despising the working class as untermenschen...

He should have said preferred race.

It would have been just as untrue.

White is the preferred race in this nation.

Which is why Hillary's entire campaign is about pushing white people to the back of the bus and that is being cheered as "progress".....

Pretty soon "white privilege" will be treated by white people as just as racist as Zionist conspiracy theories about Jews.

 

[hadit]

The article referenced in the OP reflects the disconnect the power structure of the two parties are suffering. They can't understand why either Trump or Sanders is doing as well as they are because they cannot allow themselves to consider the truth, which is that voters are totally fed up with politics as usual and want candidates who are not obviously beholden to the powers that be. Trump is not conservative at all, but he has a lot of his own money and the power structure hates him. Plus he's one Republican that's not afraid to get down in the mud where democrats usually dwell and fight on their playing field. Sanders isn't even really a democrat, and he's the only alternative to the ultimate politics as usual, Hillary. Thus, liberals have to invent a bunch of crap that reflects their disdain and contempt for ordinary people.

 

[The VOR]

In an extremely well written letter to the editor in this morning's Los Angeles Times, a reader writes:

"The GOP has done this to itself. By encouraging the hateful rhetoric and anti-government vitriol of Fox News and others, the party has set the stage for Trump ..... Less educated working class whites are afraid of the demographic and cultural changes coming because it means the loss of their status as members of the preferred class. The GOP has taken advantage of this by whipping up fear and anger among them. Along comes their savior, Trump, who tells them what they want to hear.

"The monster is loose, Dr. Frankenstein. Your creature is going to kill you."

I couldn't agree more. Trump is easily on of the most annoying people I have ever seen. His arrogance and lack of humility are exceeded only by his rudeness and obvious lack of class. Can you imagine any presidential candidate in the last 60 years conducting himself the way Trump does on a daily basis? I was listening to the most recent Republican "debate" the other night. Can you imagine Dwight David Eisenhower, Jack Kennedy or, for that matter, Ronald Reagan, saying anything even close to the things that Trump is saying? Of course not.

Times have changed, you say? It's a new dawn for the conducting of presidential campaigns, you say? Hogwash. Have the standards for President of the United States changed? I don't think so. This man is so obviously the wrong person for the job it is not even funny - it's tragic.

"I'm for Trump because he's not afraid to tell it like it is!" Translation? "Trump is a bigoted asshole and so am I!" I feel sadness for all of those who purport to support this arrogant jerk. How they are unable to see beyond his obvious facade is beyond me.

I have mixed emotions about who will ultimately get the Republican nomination. My sincere hope is that it will be Trump, for obvious reasons. It will insure a Democratic victory in November.

Couldn't have stated it better myself.

They live in a constant state of fear knowing that their preferred status is going bye bye.

 

[Missourian]

Well, Tuesday night in New Hampshire, our Establishment Betters were once again exposed as useless elites who have lost compete touch with their own voters. Trump not only won the Granite State by a wide margin, according to exit polls, Trump won the votes of every education demographic, including those with college and post-graduate degrees.

The GOP frontrunner earned 46% of the vote among those with a high school education or less; second place was Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) with 13%. Trump earned the support of 38% of those with some college; second place was John Kasich with 14%. Trump earned the support of 32% of college graduates; second place was John Kasich with 18%. Trump won 23% of those with post-graduate study; Kasich came in second with 22%.

Establishment Wrong Again: Trump Wins College Educated Voters In NH - Breitbart​

Want to see South Carolina and Nevada?

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[The VOR]

.... Less educated working class whites are afraid of the demographic and cultural changes coming because it means the loss of their status as members of the preferred class. ..

I stopped reading this shit here.

Working Class Whites are not now, nor have been for quite a long time, been a member of any "preferred class".

talk about racist and bigots. they are crawling out of the wood work over these elections and it's being stirred by the media, colleges and universities and that slimy Progressive/Democrat party. I don't know how much more white people is going to put up with this Blatant in their face, racism and bigotry against them.

Another one who is too fucking stupid to think for herself.

 

[2aguy]

.....Funny how you think you're not voting for an elitist when you're voting for a freakin' New York billionare! You rubes!

Personally, I'm taking a Republican ballot on Tuesday, voting Trump, and will then write my own name in on the November ballot. My vote on Tuesday is less for Trump than against the establishment Republicans who don't have the first idea what Conservatism actually IS. Trump talks it but wouldn't walk it. The rest won't even talk it.

I agree with you...but then that is one less vote to stop hilary....and no matter how bad Trump may be...he is not evil.....hilary will be barak x100.....

 

[Davros]

.....Funny how you think you're not voting for an elitist when you're voting for a freakin' New York billionare! You rubes!

Personally, I'm taking a Republican ballot on Tuesday, voting Trump, and will then write my own name in on the November ballot. My vote on Tuesday is less for Trump than against the establishment Republicans who don't have the first idea what Conservatism actually IS. Trump talks it but wouldn't walk it. The rest won't even talk it.

I agree with you...but then that is one less vote to stop hilary....and no matter how bad Trump may be...he is not evil.....hilary will be barak x100.....

So you also don't believe Cruz is a conservative? Is there no such thing as a conservative?

 

[whitehall]

An "extremely well written" single freaking letter? The left must be desperate to post this junk.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

In an extremely well written letter to the editor in this morning's Los Angeles Times, a reader writes:

"The GOP has done this to itself. By encouraging the hateful rhetoric and anti-government vitriol of Fox News and others, the party has set the stage for Trump ..... Less educated working class whites are afraid of the demographic and cultural changes coming because it means the loss of their status as members of the preferred class. The GOP has taken advantage of this by whipping up fear and anger among them. Along comes their savior, Trump, who tells them what they want to hear.

"The monster is loose, Dr. Frankenstein. Your creature is going to kill you."

I couldn't agree more. Trump is easily on of the most annoying people I have ever seen. His arrogance and lack of humility are exceeded only by his rudeness and obvious lack of class. Can you imagine any presidential candidate in the last 60 years conducting himself the way Trump does on a daily basis? I was listening to the most recent Republican "debate" the other night. Can you imagine Dwight David Eisenhower, Jack Kennedy or, for that matter, Ronald Reagan, saying anything even close to the things that Trump is saying? Of course not.

Times have changed, you say? It's a new dawn for the conducting of presidential campaigns, you say? Hogwash. Have the standards for President of the United States changed? I don't think so. This man is so obviously the wrong person for the job it is not even funny - it's tragic.

"I'm for Trump because he's not afraid to tell it like it is!" Translation? "Trump is a bigoted asshole and so am I!" I feel sadness for all of those who purport to support this arrogant jerk. How they are unable to see beyond his obvious facade is beyond me.

I have mixed emotions about who will ultimately get the Republican nomination. My sincere hope is that it will be Trump, for obvious reasons. It will insure a Democratic victory in November.

Let me get this straight:

Currently we have your President who was supported by the US Communist Party both elections. His replacements could be an admitted Socialist who spent his honeymoon in the USSR, and didn't earn a steady paycheck until he reached the age of 40. The other under FBI investigation for her role in their charity she shares with her husband and deleting e-mails while scoffing the Freedom of Information Act.

And leftists have the balls to criticize a multi-billionaire who created thousands of jobs, became a real estate giant, and even dominated the entertainment industry?

Yep, there's them liberal standards again.

 

[2aguy]

.....Funny how you think you're not voting for an elitist when you're voting for a freakin' New York billionare! You rubes!

Personally, I'm taking a Republican ballot on Tuesday, voting Trump, and will then write my own name in on the November ballot. My vote on Tuesday is less for Trump than against the establishment Republicans who don't have the first idea what Conservatism actually IS. Trump talks it but wouldn't walk it. The rest won't even talk it.

I agree with you...but then that is one less vote to stop hilary....and no matter how bad Trump may be...he is not evil.....hilary will be barak x100.....

So you also don't believe Cruz is a conservative? Is there no such thing as a conservative?

I don't trust any politician...but I am voting for Cruz.....of the lot, he at least has defended the Constitution in court and whatever personal problems he may have, I would trust him to come closer to appointing conservative judges, and to holding to what he said he would do on taxes....

But as I have said before....I will vote for anything breathing..or undead, to keep hilary out of office......

 

[2aguy]

In an extremely well written letter to the editor in this morning's Los Angeles Times, a reader writes:

"The GOP has done this to itself. By encouraging the hateful rhetoric and anti-government vitriol of Fox News and others, the party has set the stage for Trump ..... Less educated working class whites are afraid of the demographic and cultural changes coming because it means the loss of their status as members of the preferred class. The GOP has taken advantage of this by whipping up fear and anger among them. Along comes their savior, Trump, who tells them what they want to hear.

"The monster is loose, Dr. Frankenstein. Your creature is going to kill you."

I couldn't agree more. Trump is easily on of the most annoying people I have ever seen. His arrogance and lack of humility are exceeded only by his rudeness and obvious lack of class. Can you imagine any presidential candidate in the last 60 years conducting himself the way Trump does on a daily basis? I was listening to the most recent Republican "debate" the other night. Can you imagine Dwight David Eisenhower, Jack Kennedy or, for that matter, Ronald Reagan, saying anything even close to the things that Trump is saying? Of course not.

Times have changed, you say? It's a new dawn for the conducting of presidential campaigns, you say? Hogwash. Have the standards for President of the United States changed? I don't think so. This man is so obviously the wrong person for the job it is not even funny - it's tragic.

"I'm for Trump because he's not afraid to tell it like it is!" Translation? "Trump is a bigoted asshole and so am I!" I feel sadness for all of those who purport to support this arrogant jerk. How they are unable to see beyond his obvious facade is beyond me.

I have mixed emotions about who will ultimately get the Republican nomination. My sincere hope is that it will be Trump, for obvious reasons. It will insure a Democratic victory in November.

Let me get this straight:

Currently we have your President who was supported by the US Communist Party both elections. His replacements could be an admitted Socialist who spent his honeymoon in the USSR, and didn't earn a steady paycheck until he reached the age of 40. The other under FBI investigation for her role in their charity she shares with her husband and deleting e-mails while scoffing the Freedom of Information Act.

And leftists have the balls to criticize a multi-billionaire who created thousands of jobs, became a real estate giant, and even dominated the entertainment industry?

Yep, there's them liberal standards again.

Leftists are strange creatures aren't they?

 

[Missourian]

Donald Trump won New Hampshire, a moderate Northeastern state that prides itself on its sober analysis of the candidates at hand. Donald Trump won South Carolina, a conservative Southern state with a number of religious voters. Donald Trump has now won Nevada, a Western state with its own eclectic mix of Republican voting groups.

Trump won them all. According to preliminary entrance poll data reported by CNN, he won every age group and every education group and both genders -- and even every racial and ethnic group. About 1 in 10 Nevada Republicans were Hispanic. More than 4 in 10 of them backed Donald Trump (according to entrance polls with a notably large margin of error).

What's the theme here? What's the thing that's turned Donald Trump from the never-gonna-happen outsider of last June into the how-can-he-be-stopped candidate of February?

How Donald Trump dominated Nevada, in one word: Anger
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That highlighted section answers the question posed in the OP quite well. What kind of people support Trump? EVERY KIND!