Yet another in my series of explaining things. Albeit, this is drastically different from explaining the number or why men don't want to date single moms.
To a number of people on the left, and some in the middle, Donald Trump is a complete mystery. A collective madness. Why on earth has he been dominating polls for 6 months?
1. Rational Self Interest (Or as Liberals Call it, Racism.)
Have you heard of the NAACP? BLM? La Raza? Asian Pacific National Caucus? National Black Caucus? National HIspanic Caucus Institute?
Maybe, maybe not. Simple point is--every group has racial interests. But for the past 40 years or so, whites have been terrified of having any racial interests, and showing any sign of group interest brings scorn and attempts at getting the person fired.
Let's get real. You think the left can joyfully publish things like https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/so-youre-about-to-become-a-minority_us_553011f0e4b04ebb92325daf and https://www.salon.com/2015/12/22/white_men_must_be_stopped_the_very_future_of_the_planet_depends_on_it_partner/
and nothing will happen? If there is one thing Economics and Political Science both strongly teach is... every group acts in its own self interest. Did you think whites would never reach a point where they dared declare what is in their own interest? Go thank your local chapter of Black Lives Matter.
2. A realization that politicians really don't care. But this guy might be on your side. So when someone comes along who actually seems like he will do something about it, in the eyes of the public he goes from chubby old businessman to
Consider what the Right loves in the USA. Their pet issues. Gun rights. Abortion. Gay marriage. The military.
Consider what got done when Bush was president and the GOP had control of the Federal government for years... a war in Iraq that in retrospect was 100% a waste of blood and treasure. A gun ban expired .Anything else?
The right is getting realistic. Abortion is never going away unless women lose the right to vote, so why get upset? Bush didn't even do a thing about it. Gay marriage? Kind of accepted fact.
Oh yeah... as the Left has joyfully been saying, whites are about to become a minority in the USA. While the government will literally have a shootout over a shotgun barrel being 1 inch too short, it doesn't care about enforcing illegal immigration. Which not only burns that latinos are literally shielded from the law, but it helps ensure that everything the right does like is going away. Whites vote conservative, mostly. Latinos, gaining power via being shielded from the law, are something like 80% liberal. That's life. So Trump comes along, and even one actual issue getting taken care of is a huge gain. Maybe he's a lying politician, but he's stating things that get normal people fired by liberal media mobs. So why not trust him?
3. He's pushing boundaries of acceptable speech. Let's face it. For the Right, things aren't great. Protests everywhere, so much bullshit, so little freedom of speech. The left can flat out run articles like "White Men must be Stopped" and no heads roll. Meanwhile any vaguely possibly racist comments from whites result in social media storms and campaigns to have people fired. To a degree, we literally are at the point of putting on masks just to say what liberals shout from roof tops.
Then along comes a politician who is willing to shout what we discuss only when angry over the dinner table. By definition, even if he does not win, Trump is expanding the range of what is becoming socially acceptable to say. He's literally equalizing freedom of speech for whites. How can the Right not love that?
In summary, Trump is going to become the GOP nominee because of increasing racial group awareness among whites in this racially polarized atmosphere... because of realization at how futile it is to elect traditionally "conservative" politicians... and because of increased social rights by extension.
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